The image is credited to Chris Hadfield, Expedition 34 flight engineer, while the annotations are credited to Vincent Berseth. The picture shows the space station lookout of Japan's Kibo Research Module. The photo is interesting, as I have never quite known about the structure of such aspects of the International Space Station. There are long solar panels stretching from the upper left, and the ePressurized Module's cylindrical airlock can be found in the lower right. Toward the left one can find what looks like a washer and dryer- these are NASA and JAXA's HREP (near) and MCE (far) respective research platforms. Gold foil experiment in the rear of HREP is the Remote Atmospheric and Ionospheric Detection System. to monitor atmospheric airglow; the MCE includes the Global Lightning and Sprite Measurements instrument that keeps track of atmospheric electrical discharges.
Currently, Expedition 35 is commanded by Colonel Hadfield. The crew is to stay aboard until May.
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