The Adriatic sea and Italy

The Adriatic sea and Italy as seen from space. ESA's Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli took this photo on 27 December 2010 from the International Space Station, where he is serving as a flight engineer with Cady Coleman and Dmitri Kondratyev till June 2011.

Paolo’s MagISStra mission is Europe’s third long-duration mission on the ISS.