If the astronauts in space, type increase, spend much of their free time with the benefit of hindsight on Earth. It is the most colorful and the most beautiful thing in sight.
Now he has written astronaut Don Pettit, the millionth photo of the international space station recorded is because its first elements were launched in 1998 in life. Pettit is one of the six members of crew currently on the station (there are two Americans, three Russians and a Dutch astronaut), and they are not sure who is the image.
"Photo station 1 millionth." Part of the time series should be extinguished. Not sure, which she, Dan Burbank or me. "Forget us http://pic.twitter.com/MjnkRm2S", eat Pettit said on his Twitter. (How images, follow NASA computer since the beginning of the station, that is why they know that this image no. 1 000 000 has catalogued the.)
The image - downwards, as for many others - shows two ships of the Russia offer also 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 beautiful film accelerated showing station courses NASA Earth 240 miles above him at a speed of approximately 17,300 mph to take. Here's a recent example:
Pettit, is in his second round as astronauts to the space station (flew on a shuttle and space mission), has since December been surrounded and should home in May. He has kept a blog entitled "Letters on Earth."
"In my view orbital, I sit still and Earth moves," he wrote in a post. "I sit on the greater than rotation all the balls under my feet and see the speed of the world of the".
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