Central & East Asia in Winter | International Space Station

Central Asia in Winter | International Space Station

A portion of the Pamir Mountains, a mountain range at the northwest junction of the Himalayas and crossing several Central Asia countries, is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above Uzbekistan.

Winter in Mongolia—captured by NASA Astronaut Loral O'Hara

A duo of Tibetan lakes, Qingche and Luotuo, in China are covered with ice as snow drifts through the mountainous terrain. The International Space Station was orbiting 260 miles above when NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli captured this image.

Lakes Mansarovar (top) and Rakshastal, on the Chinese side of the Himalayan border with India, are pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 260 miles above the Indian subcontinent.

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Expedition 70 Crew

Station Commander: Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency (Denmark)

Roscosmos (Russia): Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, Konstantin Borisov

JAXA: Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa (Japan)

NASA: Jasmin Moghbeli, Loral O'Hara (USA)

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.

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) 

Release Dates: Jan. 30-Feb. 10, 2024

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