Posts Tagged "space"

River Plate from space

Fantastic photo tweeted by Commander Chris Hadfield and taken from the International Space Station of the River Plate emptying into the ocean. Buenos Aires can clearly be seen on the bottom bank of the river, as can Montevideo near where ...

Buenos Aires & the Rio de la Plata seen from space

Looking some stuff up for the quiz the other day and I came across this NASA photo on Wikipedia of the River Plate and Buenos Aires. The added captions are mine, click for larger view. With North on the left of ...