Check out these International images:
Chile, Carnero Bay (NASA, International Space Station Science, 03/03/10)
Image by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
A rugged, isolated section of coast on Carnero Bay, about 60 miles south-southwest of Concepcion, Chile, is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 22 crew member on the International Space Station. The area includes forested hills, a couple of highways, and perhaps some cleared pastureland. The narrow beach appears to be rocky with breakers and some sediment in the waters near-shore. The small coastal town of Labu (out of frame) lies less than ten miles to the south-southwest.
Image/caption credit: NASA
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spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-22/html/...
More about the Crew Earth Observation experiment aboard the International Space Station:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/experiments/CE...
More about space station science:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/index.html
There's a Flickr group about Space Station Science. Please feel welcome to join! www.flickr.com/groups/stationscience/
Arriving in China - Beijing Capital International Airport
Image by Images by John 'K'
Last year my wife and I visited China on a trip to celebrate our 25th anniversary. All in all we took around 2,500 pictures. Here is a small set from the archives that have been cleaned up a little! (If only I knew then what I know now about taking photos with a DSLR!)
This is a shot from inside Terminal 3 of the Capital International Airport in Beijing, China. We arrived in China on the day the terminal opened to the public and so there was next to no-one around. In stark contrast the place was packed almost to overflowing when we flew home.
Beijing Capital International Airport, (simplified Chinese: 北京首都国际机场; traditional Chinese: åŒ—äº¬é¦–éƒ½åœ‹éš›æ©Ÿå ´; pinyin: BÄ›ijÄ«ng ShÇ'udÅ« Guójì JÄ«chÇŽng) (IATA: PEK, ICAO: ZBAA) is the main international airport of Beijing, China. It is located 32 km northeast of Beijing's city center in an enclave of Chaoyang District that is surrounded by rural Shunyi District. The airport is owned and operated by the Beijing Capital International Airport Company Limited, a state-controlled company. Ihe extention in 1999 was fully financed by ODA provided by Japanese government. The airport's IATA Airport Code, PEK, is based on the city's former romanized name, Peking.
The Beijing Capital International Airport is the largest and busiest airport in China. It is the main hub for China's national flagship carrier Air China, which flies to around 120 destinations (excluding cargo) from Beijing. Hainan and China Southern Airlines also use the airport as their regional hub.
Beijing Capital has rapidly ascended the ranks of the world's busiest airports in the past decade. In 2001, the airport served 24.18 million passengers and was ranked outside of the Top 30 in the world by passenger volume. By 2008, passenger volume had more than doubled to 55.66 million, making Beijing Capital the 8th busiest airport in the world. In 2008, the airport registered 431,675 aircraft movements (take-offs and landings), which ranked 21st in the world, making Beijing Capital the only Asian airport in the Top 30. In terms of cargo traffic, Beijing airport has also witnessed rapid growth. By 2008, the airport had become the 19th busiest airport in the world, registering 1,303,258 tonnes of cargo.
To accommodate the growing traffic volume, Beijing Capital added the enormous Terminal 3 in 2008, the second largest airport terminal in the world after Dubai International Airport's Terminal 3.
Text courtesy of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Capital_International_Airport
I typically upload in small sets - don't just look at the latest one in my photostream as you might be missing something you'll like more.... and your comments are ALWAYS welcome :)
© All rights reserved. John Krzesinski, 2009.
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