A series of digital photographs of Houston illustrates the new detail
being obtained for cities around the world by crewmembers on the
International Space Station. This image, captured on 17 December 2000
centers on the downtown region and shows extensive detail of streets,
parks and major buildings. The retractable roof of the new Astros
baseball stadium, Enron Field, is open. The spatial resolution of the
image is about 6.7 m/pixel.
Photography of cities to monitor urban growth is one of the
objectives of NASAs Crew Earth Observations payload from
the International Space Station. Other astronaut photographs of cities around the world can be viewed
at the Cities from Space link from the NASA-JSC Gateway to
Astronaut Photography of Earth