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| Lights of Italy and Sicily island |
The International Space Station's Cupola window bay provides dazzling new views of Earth.
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| Upper Nile Valley and Egypt at Night |
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| External View of Cupola observatory |
The Cupola is an ESA-built observatory module of the International Space Station (ISS). Its seven windows are used to conduct experiments, dockings and observations of Earth. It was launched aboard Space Shuttle mission STS-130 on 8 February 2010 and attached to the Tranquility (Node 3) module. With the Cupola attached, ISS assembly reached 85 percent completeness. The cupola is the largest window ever used in space.
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| Astronaut in the observatory |
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| Picture of Astronauts space walk |
The Cupola provides an observation and work area for the ISS crew giving visibility to support the control of the space station remote manipulator system and general external viewing of Earth, celestial objects and visiting vehicles. Its name derives from Italian word cupola, which means dome.
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