"Flying peacefully over some parts of the world!" wrote ESA's Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli on his blog (twitter.com/astro_paolo) about this photo. He took it on 27 December 2010 from the International Space Station, where Paolo is serving as a flight engineer with Cady Coleman and Dmitri Kondratyev till June 2011.
His MagISStra mission is Europe’s third long-duration mission on the ISS.