Tel Aviv, Haifa and the Dead Sea: an astronaut photographed Israel from space at night
The Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforti published new photos of different areas in Israel from the International Space Station.
"I was intrigued by the straight lines at the southern end of the Dead Sea," she said in a tweet on Twitter
Yanon ben Shoshan
02/10/2022
Sunday, October 02, 2022, 08:32 Updated: 09:06
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Astronaut Samantha Cristoforti from Italy, a space pilot of the European Space Agency, published yesterday (Saturday) new photos of Israel from the International Space Station - two taken during the day and two taken at night.
"Hello to Israel and the cities of Haifa and Tel Aviv at night. I was also intrigued by these straight lines at the southern end of the Dead Sea - it turns out that it is a complex of Jordanian salt evaporation ponds," the astronaut wrote.
In the photographs published by Cristoforti on her Twitter account, the Gush Dan area can be seen in a bright light late at night, and in another photo, the Haifa Bay area and the cities of Acre and the Carmel Castle can be seen.
As expected, the tweet received mixed reactions on the social network - those who decided to compliment Cristoforti for the spectacular documentation, alongside pro-Palestinian surfers who decided to attack.
Tel Aviv area and Gush Dan from space (Photo: Samantha Cristoforetti)
Haifa from the International Space Station (Photo: Samantha Cristoforetti)
The evaporation pools of the Dead Sea from space (Photo: Samantha Cristoforetti)
The evaporation pools of the Dead Sea from space (Photo: Samantha Cristoforetti)
Cristoforti, who holds the record for the longest stay in space in one flight by a woman, last August documented the solar power plant in Ashlim, which is seen from space as a particularly bright point of light.
The astronaut wrote at the time: "An intriguing sight! A bright spot in the Negev desert... so unusual to see man-made lights during the day! This is a solar energy station, one of the technologies to receive renewable energy from the sun. With one of the tallest solar energy towers in the world!".
As part of the Israel Space Week events held on the 13th anniversary of Ilan Ramon's death in the Columbia disaster, Cristoforti visited Israel in February 2016.
Among other things, she participated in the International Space Conference named after Ilan Ramon at the Fisher Institute in Herzliya and the Observatory in Givatayim.
Cristoforti has a daughter, who was born in November 2016, and as of 2016, holds the rank of captain in the Italian Air Force, and has accumulated over 500 flight hours on six types of aircraft.
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