Subspace in the OP really – but people can submit images from any altitude…

Commander Chris Hadfield, a Canooooodian, has been tweeting happy snap from the IIS.

His twitter account is : @Cmdr_Hadfield and he did a really good series of Australia images a while back..

Here is one pic not from Australia but Scooooootlooond.

The Scottish east coast as-seen from space, Montrose to Peterhead, Aberdeen at the centre. pic.twitter.com/tX44RhDZfB

My interpretation of the white fluff or blobs in the lower left hand corner of the image is this – snow-dusted peaks in late winter of the Ooch Aye high country of Scotland, including the Cairngorms National Park. Reports from other tweeters suggest that it was a unusually clear day. It’s also possible or likely that there would be some cloud / mist accumulating around the peaks generated from orographic effect – but I don’t know the wind conditions on the day.

The white area in question lies around 59.950993 N, -3.256117 W

Google Earth shows rough, steep, dissected, hilly high country of gorse and heath, with pine plantations in the valleys and the white lies along ridges of 700-800m elevation. The highest peak is Lochnager (1013 m) (http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/~arb/durc/meets/lochnagar.html).
There’s some native forest patches on the flanks of the hills near Braemar and the Bridge of Dee (57.001954 N, -3.339194 W).

Despite the moderate elevation of these mountain / hill peaks, being at such a high latitude, they’d get mighty breezy in a kilt.

The darker areas on the cleared, paddocked plains at 57.007681 N, -2.393795 W are pine plantations (near Banchory).

There’s no bush on the flat plains NE of the hilly high country (ooch aye), t’is all paddocks and plantations, with the guessing possibility that there might be some pockets of heritage woodland or hedgerows or meadows..

That’s my interpretation…. all good fun. Someone else can now have a stab at it or find another image.

Chris Hadfield ‏@Cmdr_Hadfield

Pyongyang, North Korea. A shrouded city of much global concern. In stark contrast with the South, not too far away. pic.twitter.com/zct8771jpl

ooo00 – he’s now taking pictures of North Korea.

Aberdeen is that dusty looking patch on the coast just below the the curvy beach section.

its a very unromantic vision of scotland.

sarahs mum said:

its a very unromantic vision of scotland.

Yes and it’s the wrong colour. I’m sure Scotland isn’t really pinky-grey, at ground level.

sarahs mum said:

its a very unromantic vision of scotland.

meanwhile, at Corrour train station a good stones throw from the waypoints in the OP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci82yWg-9Q0

Tommy: Doesn’t it make you proud to be Scottish?

Mark “Rent-boy” Renton: It’s SHITE being Scottish! We’re the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some hate the English. I don’t. They’re just wankers. We, on the other hand, are COLONIZED by wankers. Can’t even find a decent culture to be colonized BY. We’re ruled by effete assholes. It’s a SHITE state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and ALL the fresh air in the world won’t make any fucking difference!

I’m hoping they vote for independence in next year’s referendum, but it’s not likely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_independence

i like the trainspotting tip. i might play it to the crit group. ta.

sarahs mum said:

i like the trainspotting tip. i might play it to the crit group. ta.

That Irvine Welsh critique was discussed recently on a recent BBC bookclub podcast.. cannee remember which one or where… but dealing with sense of place for urban people very removed from a depopulated, remote region that they told embraces their identity.

That Irvine Welsh critique was discussed recently on a recent BBC bookclub podcast.. cannee remember which one or where… but dealing with sense of place for urban people very removed from a depopulated, remote region that they told embraces their identity.

i shall have a look around he internet. that supports some of my writings. ‘imaginary’ landscape/romanticism, the myth of the highlands and how scottish identity has ‘it’s heart in the highlands’ and how scotland is perceived outside scotland as the highlands.

i am going to scotland next may. i thought it was june but it has been brought forward and the unveiling of the family plaque will coincide with a festival in haddington..last night i found out that my brother john is coming with the sister and myself. what a hoot it will be. and maybe we will meet some of the canadian lost but found rellies.

good-o

I should have used ‘encapsulates’ and not ‘embraces’

Sure looks like snow.