Star Wars: NASA omaggia una Nuova Speranza con immagini satellitari

Star Wars. In occasione dei 43 anni di Episodio IV – Una Nuova Speranza, la NASA ha preso parte alle celebrazioni in maniera simpatica e speciale. Ha condiviso sui propri social network alcune immagini satellitari delle location delle riprese fatte in Tunisia.

Ha puntato i riflettori sulle scene della casa di Obi-Wan Kenobi e quelle nello spazioporto di Mos Eisley.

Qui di seguito il messaggio originale della Nasa su Facebook:

“In the movie, Mos Eisley was a dusty, bustling port city set on a desert plain. In the real world, parts of several key scenes from the spaceport were filmed in Ajim, a fishing town on the Tunisian island of Djerba. The island (also called Jerba) is situated in the Gulf of Gabes on the Mediterranean Sea. A domed building that was once a Berber bakery provided the exterior of the cantina. Though now crumbling, the building still stands in the southern part of the city near a ferry terminal. Apartments have sprung up around it, but tourists still come to see its exterior and find the skyline and cityscape that the Millennium Falcon rocketed through. On the northern outskirts of Ajim, there is another set from Star Wars — the desert abode of Obi-Wan. The scenes were actually filmed in an old mosque along the Mediterranean Sea, which still stands but has become a storage space for fishing equipment. If you look carefully at the large image, the structure is just barely visible.”