ISS Picture of Mount McKinley

[Dark_Templer_102]

I dunno whos seen but i took this off anthor forum

(14 August 2005) --- Mount McKinley, Alaska is featured in this image
photographed by an Expedition 11 crewmember on the International Space
Station.

This view ? of the highest point in North America (20,230 feet) looks as if it
were taken from an aircraft.

The Station crewmember took advantage of cloud free skies and the powerful
800 mm lens to photograph this peak, fully 800 miles to the north of the
spacecraft, which was located over the Gulf of Alaska. The powerful lenses
are difficult to use, requiring motion compensation by the astronaut, so that
these kinds of detailed images of horizon detail are seldom taken.

The rising sun casts long shadows across the Kahiltna Glacier that angles
down from Mt. McKinley (lower left). Other glaciers with moraine lines appear
at far left and far right. Despite the blueness inherent in images taken at
great distance, this image also shows unusually dense atmospheric haze at
lower altitudes: all the valleys in the foreground appear murky due to forest

Warning: Very Big picture
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-11/hires/iss011e11806.jpg

Fixed

 

[ryosuke]

omg! :shock:
can't believe they took this from space.


but you should fix the link, theres an "]" too much at the end.

 

[fbc]

:shock:

Didn't know you could that angle from space

 

[jayjaya29]

Wow some picture!

 

[rootrider]

awesome.. new background for me

 

[sandor_]

:shock:

Didn't know you could that angle from space

remember, the space station is "only" 250 miles straight up from earth, and when that image was taken, it was 800 miles south of McKinley, over the Gulf of Alaska. So it would look roughly like this...