All these photo collages were generated on the ground from pictures taken onboard the ISS during expedition 50 and 51. Thomas asked to have the series of highly zoomed pictures aligned into this collage to show the target area in great detail. The International Space Station flies at roughly 400 km altitude so Thomas used the longest lens available onboard: 1150 mm. During the time necessary to take a few dozens of pictures to be stitched together, the ISS travelled be several hundred kilometres.
On the ground, the images were digitally rotated and assembled into this large collage.

Download the high-resolution version on www.esa.int, keyword search "big picture", to zoom in and explore.

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We launched a number of Cubesats from the International Space Station these last few weeks. Among others was the Janus satellite sponsored by CNES and designed by French students as well as Finland's first satellite, welcome to space Finland! :)

Ces dernières semaines, nous avons lancé toute une série de nanosatellites Cubesats depuis la Station spatiale, dont le tout premier satellite finlandais et ceux du projet Janus du CNES, réalisés par des étudiants français. Bienvenue dans l'espace, la Finlande ! cnes.fr/fr/x-cubesat-et-spacecube-ont-ete-mis-en-orbite-d...

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