The Himalayas & Mount Everest | International Space Station

The Himalayas & Mount Everest | International Space Station

NASA astronaut Don Pettit: "Mt. Everest is in this photo; can you find it? It is the big mountain that sticks up high. Mount Everest is the tallest peak in a whole range of tall peaks and not easily found. We have a way of picking it out, sort of like a geographic mnemonic that serves to impress rookie crewmembers."

"As your orbit approaches the Himalayas, always from west to east, you can readily spy two nested lakes that look like 'wine glasses'. Now only 15 seconds away from Everest, you quickly search for “Bow Tie Lake”, seen in photo 2. To find Everest, go east from Bow Tie Lake to the first large drainage (about 3 Bow Tie lengths), drop down to the end of the right fork and move SE from that point about one Bow Tie and there be Everest!"

"Again, not easy to find when you have maybe 10-15 seconds to get a good photo. Photo 3 is an oblique and allows Everest’s peak to be spotted."

Image details: Nikon Z9, Sigma 50-500 lens f2.8 lens at 78mm, 1/2500 sec, f8, ISO 500

Mount Everest is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The Himalayas, separating the Indian subcontinent from China, home to the South Asian nations of Nepal and Bhutan, and with Lakes Mansarovar and Rakshastal on the Chinese side, are pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above. The Himalayas, or Himalaya, is a mountain range in Asia. The range has a number of the Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest. Over 100 peaks exceed elevations of 7,200 meters (23,600 feet) above sea level in the Himalayas.

The Himalayas cross five countries: Nepal, China, Pakistan, Bhutan and India.

Expedition 72 Updates:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 72 Crew

Station Commander: Suni Williams

Roscosmos (Russia): Alexander Grebenkin, Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner, Aleksandr Gorbunov

NASA: Matthew Dominick, Mike Barrett, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, Don Pettit, Nick Hague

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)/D. Pettit

Release Date: Oct. 11, 2024

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