The island has been classified as an Important Bird Area because it is a breeding site of world importance for Lesser Frigatebirds and three other species.Įfforts are underway to clear the island of Polynesian rats that are a constant threat to the seabirds. A solar-powered lighthouse appears as a tiny white dot in the high-resolution image at the north tip of the island (arrowed). The highest point is little more than 12 feet above sea level on this grassy but treeless island.
#Images from international space station series
The modern island is the dark central area, made up of a series of beach ridges built by sands from the surrounding sandbank during storms. It is only 2.9 km (2 mi) long, but the entire tidal zone with all the concentric zones is 24.5 km (15.2 mi) long, surrounded by extensive sandbanks in the tidally exposed area. One of the most beautiful Earth images taken from the International Space Station in 2015: Adele Island is an island located in the Indian Ocean approximately 104 kilometers (65 mi) North of Bardi off the Kimberley coast in Western Australia.
( See more space station photos.Most beautiful Earth images from the International Space Station in 2015: Adele Island from the International Space Station The station supports a crew of up to six people and has orbited the Earth more than 90,000 times, playing host to wide variety of scientific experiments and observations. The station launched in 1998 and is a project of five international space agencies, in the United States, Russia, Canada, Japan, and Europe. This photo and those that follow were all made by astronauts from the International Space Station since last year.
According to NASA, data suggest the clouds may be getting brighter and appearing at lower latitudes as a result of global warming. Astronauts describe them as among the most beautiful sights from space. The thin clouds above the midnight sun are known as noctilucent clouds (night-shining clouds) or polar mesospheric clouds, since they occur over the poles during the summer. The Aleutian Islands are not visible on the dark side of the day-night line. The space station was in its "top of the orbit," according to NASA, the northernmost latitude it reaches (51.6 degrees north). Above, astronauts witnessed the phenomena firsthand from the International Space Station, which orbits roughly 205 miles (330 kilometers) above the Earth's surface.Īstronauts made the image looking north across the Aleutian Islands, 20 minutes after local midnight in early August 2013. "There are strange things done in the midnight sun," Canadian poet Robert Service wrote in 1907. (See more space station photos.)-By Brian Clark Howard, photo gallery by Kurt Mutchler
According to NASA, data suggest the clouds may be getting brighter and appearing at lower latitudes as a result of global warming.This photo and those that follow were all made by astronauts from the International Space Station since last year. The Aleutian Islands are not visible on the dark side of the day-night line.The thin clouds above the midnight sun are known as noctilucent clouds (night-shining clouds) or polar mesospheric clouds, since they occur over the poles during the summer. Above, astronauts witnessed the phenomena firsthand from the International Space Station, which orbits roughly 205 miles (330 kilometers) above the Earth's surface.Astronauts made the image looking north across the Aleutian Islands, 20 minutes after local midnight in early August 2013.
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