Suez Canal complete alternative

A second mapping of the Suez canal. ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is spending six months on the International Space Station as part of his second mission "Alpha". In his free time, like many astronauts, he enjoys looking out of the Cupola windows at Earth. This collage of pictures shows the Suez Canal, made from 100 pictures mapped together, digitally rotated and assembled into this large collage. The images were taken on 29 May 2021 at around 12:15 GMT.

Thomas asked to have the series of highly zoomed-in pictures aligned into this collage to show the area in detail. The International Space Station flies at roughly 400 km altitude so Thomas uses the longest lenses available onboard. For this picture mapping he swapped the usual 1.6x teleconverter on the 800 mm lens to a 2x, meaning this collage is made of photos with a 1600 mm equivalent.