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cheering the Boston Red Sox from the International Space Station?
Or enjoying New England's fall colors on a fine fall day in mid-October
(the red color along the estuary north of Logan airport hints of
the fall colors that the region enjoyed)? Or trying to observe Boston's
"Big Dig", the local transportation project that is now the largest
civil engineering project in U.S. history? Regardless of the reason,
this image provides a good bird's-eye view of the center of the
city, including famous colonial and independence locations extending
from Boston Common to the North End.
hover over the south end of Logan Airport. Ship traffic in the Charles
and Mystic Rivers is marked by the wakes of the ships. And highly
reflective construction locations, including the new I-93 and bridge
over the Charles River, and highway exchanges at Logan Airport mark
new elements of Boston's Big Dig.
was provided by the Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory
at Johnson Space Center. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory to help astronauts
take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists
and the public, and to make those images freely available on the
Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can
be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway
to Astronaut Photography of Earth.