NASA shares new photos of New York to commemorate September 11

It's been 17 years since the September 11 attacks caused the deaths of thousands of innocent Americans in a vicious terrorist attack that not only rocked the United States but also the entire world. Now the NASA space agency, which commemorates the anniversary of this tragic event on US soil, has shared new images of the city of New York and Washington, places of terrorist attacks, extracted from space .

Remembering the heroes, victims and survivors of September 11, 2011, the US Space Agency shared a photo of New York City that astronaut Ricky Arnold photographed of the International Space Station.

The image, shared on Twitter and on which the astronaut clicked from the space, shows the area where the World Trade Center stood proudly before the two planes hit the twin towers.

A World Trade Center, a new tower, was then built near the Ground Zero memorial.

The space agency also shared another photo on the microblogging site, where people can see the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, on the other side of the Washington Bridge . This one was also clicked in NASA's floating space laboratory. Astronaut Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency had captured this photo on April 11, 2017.

On September 9, 2011, the only American who was not present on planet Earth was NASA astronaut Frank Culbertson. Expedition 3 Commander Culbertson was the only American member of that team that year. What he saw from the International Space Station at this dangerous time was smoke. He then began documenting the event from his perspective, about 250 miles above the Earth.

"The world has changed today, what I say or do is very minor compared to the significance of what happened to our country today when it was attacked," writes the astronaut. Culbertson in a letter published shortly after the attacks.

"It's horrible to see smoke run out of wounds in your own country from such a fantastic perspective.The dichotomy of being on a spacecraft dedicated to improving life on Earth and to see life destroyed by acts too, no matter who you are, "he added.