You can see the snow dusting the tops of the Olympic Mountains in a newly released portrait captured from the International Space Station.
But if you think that’s something, try looking for the ships plying Puget Sound and the bridges crossing Lake Washington in the high-resolution view from NASA.
The panorama was assembled from seven photos taken from orbit on May 6, and tweeted out by NASA astronaut Jeff Williams today.
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The picture is part of a series that Williams is featuring to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. Today’s focus was Olympic National Park, and Tuesday’s was Mount St. Helens National Monument.
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For still more national park vistas, plus views of exotic locations ranging from Arabia to Zambia, you’ll want to follow @Astro_Jeff’s Twitter feed. You can also feast your eyes on @NASA_Astronauts, Johnson Space Center’s Flickr photostream and a website called the Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.
Meanwhile, you can get psyched up for next week’s National Park Service centennial celebration by checking in on the agency’s website as well as FindYourPark.com. No need to send the NPS a birthday gift. Instead, it’s giving all of us a gift – in the form of free admission from Aug. 25 to 28.