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A plume of smoke emerges from what was the site of the World Trade Center in New York at 11:30 am on September 12, the day after the crash of two planes in the twin towers during a terrorist attack.
Credit: USGS / EROS
Seventeen years after September 11, NASA commemorates the anniversary of tragic terrorist attacks with new photos of New York and Washington taken from outer space.
"Today, we remember the victims, survivors and heroes of September 11th" NASA tweeted, with a new photo of New York City captured by NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold at the International Space Station on June 19.
Arnold's picture shows the site where the World Trade Center stood before two planes hit the twin towers. A new tower, the One World Trade Center, was built near the Ground Zero memorial. The new view contrasts sharply with images of debris, dust and smoke seen from space for days after the attacks. [9/11 Remembered in Space Photos]
On another photo of the space station, you can see the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, just across the Washington Bridge. European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet captured this photo on April 11, 2017.
At the time of the attacks, NASA astronaut Frank Culbertson was the only American who was not on planet Earth. He saw the smoke at his post on the International Space Station and began documenting the event from his only point of observation located about 400 km above the Earth.
NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold took this picture of New York City from the International Space Station on June 19, 2018.
Credit: Ricky Arnold / NASA
"The world has changed today," Culbertson wrote in a public letter published shortly after the attacks. "What I say or do is very minor compared to the significance of what happened to our country today when it was attacked."
You can see more pictures of astronauts and satellites from September 11 attacks seen from space and read more NASA reflections on this blog.
The Pentagon in Washington, also hit by a plane during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, is visible in this photo taken on April 11, 2017 by the astronaut of the European Space Agency Thomas Pesquet from the International Space Station . The five-sided building, which serves as the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, is visible in the center right of the image, on the other side of the Arlington Memorial Bridge.
Credit: Thomas Pesquet / ESA
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