We all know that our beautiful planet, Earth is the only place we have, where we all can breath. May be you don’t think about or you don’t feel this all the time. But the moment you go far away from the earth then you realize how much you missed it, how lucky we are to have the this planet.
Astronaut Scott Kelly who lives in the International Space Station, now for 321 consecutive days tells lot about the earth from the International Space Station (ISS). According to NASA, and astronaut Kelly’s twitter page, astronauts who flew away from the earth, of course for the mankind, are conducting about 400 different types of research in the microgravity environment. The main goal of these researches are to improve the various aspects of the human life on the earth. As a part of the ongoing researches at ISS, astronaut are taking images of the earth from the ISS which gives a different kind of view of the earth from about 249 miles away from the earth. Check out this cool pictures taken by Astronaut Kelly from the ISS.
courtesy : Astronaut Kelly’s twitter page.
Astronaut Kelly explains in his tumbler page that this is a image of giant quartzite circle called Richat Structure, which located on the western edge of the Sahara dessert at center Mauritania in Northwest Africa.
Posted this pic last week. Many of you asked: What is it? I answer on @Tumblr! https://t.co/0VJHqWt8hl #YearInSpace pic.twitter.com/9bMgKrzkS4
— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) February 11, 2016
This is how Egypt looks like from the ISS,
Good afternoon #Egypt! Hope to see you up close some day. #YearInSpace pic.twitter.com/tNqye6i5gf
— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) February 11, 2016
Morning peaceful sunlight!
Day 314. Tonight over morning in #Australia. #GoodMorning, mates! And #GoodNight from @space_station! #YearInSpacepic.twitter.com/rILPRlEAhU
— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) February 4, 2016
Beautiful aurora !
#goodmorning#February! My 11th full month is space! Thanks for having an extra day! #LeapYear2016#YearInSpace! pic.twitter.com/S8kvGiSP41
— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) February 1, 2016
Sunrise: you only need to go about 249 miles away from the earth to see this ,
#HappyFriday sunrise from @space_station! #YearInSpacepic.twitter.com/uWGnGrKVqp
— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) January 29, 2016
And hows earth look like in the night !
#Italy and the #Alps last night were breathtaking! #YearInSpace pic.twitter.com/Sgbkb1CPA4
— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) January 26, 2016