The Black Sea: Türkiye (left), Georgia (right) | International Space Station

The Black Sea: Türkiye (left), Georgia (right) | International Space Station

Expedition 70 Mission Specialist and NASA Astronaut Loral O'Hara aboard the International Space shared this image: "City lights along the Black Sea. Turkey on the left, Georgia on the right."

The Black Sea is a Mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. Around it are six countries: Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Türkiye and Ukraine. The Black Sea is supplied by major rivers, principally the Danube, Dnieper and Dniester. 

Türkiye, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq to the southeast; Syria and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and Greece and Bulgaria to the northwest. 

Georgia is a transcontinental country located in Eastern Europe and West Asia. It is part of the Caucasus region, bounded by the Black Sea to the west, Russia to the north and northeast, Turkey to the southwest, Armenia to the south, and by Azerbaijan to the southeast.

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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)/Astronaut Loral O'Hara

Acknowledgement: Wikipedia

Release Date: Jan. 26, 2024

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