This is ISS’s HDEV (High Definition Earth Viewing) experiment — a live HD stream from several cameras mounted to the External Payload Facility of the European Space Agency’s Columbus module, and has been broadcasting since April 30, 2014. To protect the cameras, they are encased in pressurized, temperature-controlled housing. Viewing notes: A black screen is normal when the … Read more
This collection of photographs was taken by the cameras of the International Space Station from it’s orbit at 319 nautical kilometers (172 miles) from the Earth’s surface. Can you guess what some of these cities are, or even the countries they belong to? We’ll make it more interesting: This first set of cities are all from … Read more
Twenty-four million dead. That is the egregious number that few people have overlooked in the decades since the end of the Second World War — number which symbolizes the dead Russian men, women, and children who died defending their motherland. It is no wonder then that Russians refer to the war as “The Great Patriotic War.” Since Putin has been in … Read more