Italia ... Dallllloooo Spaaaaaaaziooooo!

I apparently have a thing for pictures of Italy taken from space. In my defense, the boot shape is extremely recognizable, and it's really photogenic when seen from above ... like, 400 kilometers above. And I have proof! Vedere! That photo was taken on July 26, 2014, by an astronaut on the International Space Station. The ISS was a couple of hundred kilometers south of Sicily when the picture was taken, and the astronaut used a wide angle (28mm) lens. It's amazing how well the outlines of the co...