During my recent trip to the Kennedy Space Center I met a NASA official that suggested I apply to a program that allows students to use a camera onboard the International Space Station to take photographs of Earth. Upon my return I applied and our school was selected as a participant in the EarthKam program. For two days students scanned future space station orbits and programmed the camera to take pictures of some of the various geologic and oceanographic features that we have studied in my earth science and advanced geology classes. It was pretty exciting because the students sent the codes to the International Space Station to take the photograph at the exact moment the space station was over the landform they picked out. It was truly their picture, they could take ownership of it and many students said they plan on framing their space photographs. Here are some of the best ones they took!
