Taongi Atoll in The Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean | International Space Station

Taongi Atoll in The Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean | International Space Station

Taongi Atoll, in the independent country of the Marshall Islands, is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 258 miles above the Pacific Ocean.

Read more about Taongi Atoll, also known as Bokak Atoll: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokak_Atoll

Office of Commerce, Investment & Tourism 

Republic of the Marshall Islands

https://www.ocit.mh

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the  International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Learn more about the important research being operated on the station:

https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science 

For more information about STEM on Station: https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation

STEM is an acronym for the fields of science, technology, engineering and math.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Date: September 29, 2022

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