A picture made available by NASA shows a view of the Gulf of Mexico and the US Gulf Coast taken from the International Space Station (ISS) by Expedition 42’s flight engineer Terry W Virts. The space station and its crew orbit Earth from an altitude of 220 miles, travelling at a speed of approximately 28,164kph. Because the station completes each trip around the globe in about 92 minutes, the crew experiences 16 sunrises and sunsets each day.
