A NASA view of Spain from space, in all its glory

The image below is one of several NASA photographs on Flickr that could, quite possibly, have inspired the movie "Gravity."

A remarkable and beautiful image showing Spain lit up like the proverbial Christmas tree.  Read more about the photo set following the links below...

"In the spirit of the 86th Academy Awards, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center posted a set of images on Flickr that people who have seen Gravity will find very familiar. The set shows extraordinary photos of and from the International Space Station, images of astronauts repairing space shuttles and beautiful shots of the planet below."

NASA: Smoke over northern Spain from North American wildfires

Stunning images from NASA's Terra satellite captured on Wednesday and Thursday show smoke plumes over Spain and the western Mediterranean, which they think has come from wildfires in Canada. 

NASA states that on June 27, 2013, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image showing smoke plumes hovering over Spain and the western Mediterranean Sea.

NASA says that data collected from its own satellites and other observation stations suggests the smoke came from wildfires in Canada.

They also it was possible but "less likely" that the some had drifted over Spain from wildfires as far afield as the US state of Colorado, or from other areas in the southwestern US. 

NASA describes the smoke as having a faintly yellow-tan or milky gray color, compared with the brighter white clouds surrounding it.

A larger and higher resolution image can be viewed here showing the surrounding areas.

To the source: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/353327