Posted on 06/14/2015 11:46:21 AM PDT by Lorianne
On his last full day in space aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Terry Virts at last captured a truly iconic shot of one of the “Seven Wonders of the World” – the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt.
Virts snapped the exquisitely sharp view of the Egyptian pyramids at Giza on June 10 looking out from the stations windows, just hours before entering the Soyuz return spaceship and closing the hatches behind him for his planned plummet back to Earth.
He proudly posted the spectacular photo on his twitter social media account from space while serving as station commander of Expedition 43.
The three pyramids of Giza dominate the fantastically beautiful photo. They are located about 9 km (5 mi) from the town of Giza on the Nile, and some 25 km (15 mi) southwest of the Egyptian capital city of Cairo.
The Great Sphinx is also located nearby the massive complex of the Great Pyramids and visible in the stunning photo.
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Bring a nose clip if ya ever go inside the big Pyramid.
And don’t forget to ride a camel. :-)
That is “sharp?”
It’s the belt of Orion.
Pretty Cool!!!
We were two hrs. Away from leaving on the first day of the Arab spring. Now,we’ll never get there.
It is good to have these pictures from space perspective now because if ISIS et al has anything to do with it they won’t be there to get pictures of in the future.
This is from a very good hand camera but still is a hand camera. Now think about what the pictures taken by the top-line military surveillance cameras must look like! I cannot help but wonder how many backyard sunbathers have ‘starred’ in unknown (to them) snapshots! Of course Cap d’Agde in France is probably regularly surveilled (just as a precautionary measure!)
I think they let you ride a camel for free
But it is $10 to get down
The Space Station orbits around 200 miles above the earth. And it’s traveling around 5 miles per second.
I refused to ride them there, because the camels were covered in fleas. My friends got great photos of themselves on a camel in front of the pyramids though.
It’ll be surrounded by slums soon enough
saheeb!
I still have my headdress.. And pics too.
Blurry to me. Let’s see a spy satellite view — they can read license plates.
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ISS site. Tells when you can watch it go by. Also has a live feed of the Earth view during daylight.
When I was a teenager, I used to read books on the Great Pyramid. Do they allow anyone to sleep in the King’s Chamber? One book I read said that Napoleon slept there one night and came out completely shaken. Wouldn’t say what happened because he said no one would believe him.
“Super sharp”
“Truly iconic shot.”
“Equisitely sharp view.”
“Spectacular photo.”
“Fantastically beautiful photo.”
“Stunning photo.”
Sheesh, Kremer, put the bong pipe down. You got a serious astronaut crush?
Around 8:56 pm PDT tonight (Sunday) the ISS will be going by the North Star as viewed from Seattle. Visible for about 8 minutes total. Goes dark when it gets to Iowa.
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