If astronauts into space, type increase, spend much of their free time with the benefit of hindsight on Earth. Is the most colorful and the most beautiful thing in sight.
Now wrote Don Pettit, astronaut photo of the millionth international space station recorded is because its first elements were launched in 1998 in life. Pettit is one of the six crew members currently on the station (there are two Americans, three Russians and a Dutch astronaut), and I'm not sure which is the image.
"Photo station 1 millionth." Part of the time series should be extinguished. I'm not sure that she, Dan Burbank or me. "We forget http://pic.twitter.com/MjnkRm2S", eat Pettit said on his Twitter. (Such as images, follow NASA computers since the beginning of the station, that is why they know that this picture n° 1000000 has catalogued the.)
The image-down, as for many others-show two ships of Russia also offer in the foreground and the Earth. The strange Green is close to the Poles during the night, the Aurora, Northern or southern lights.
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The shot is part of a period of time taken by a camera in a window of the station and the links there is a NASA Earth 240 miles of the station accelerated courses cool movie showing above him, at a rate of approximately 17,300 mph to take. Here's a recent example:
Pettit, is in his second round as astronauts to the space station (flown on a shuttle mission and space), has since December been surrounded and should home in May. He kept a blog titled "Letters to Earth".
"In my view, orbital I sit still and movements of Earth," he wrote in a post. "I sit on greater than rolling all the balls under my feet and see the speed of the world".
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