Chicago Alight

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Chicago, Illinois on Lake Michigan

12 MP (2832×4256) Digital

City lights are very difficult to shoot from space, and the number of photos that are this clear is very small.  In spite of being only 12 megapixels, this image is crisp enough to look great poster-size.

That’s because astronaut Don Pettit built a specialized camera stabilizer for taking pictures like this one.  He used parts he found around the Space Station; personal-size CD players became gyroscopes.

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