Adriane kelly photos from space

Aurora reflection

Retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly has released a photobook, "Infinite Wonder," chronicling his 340 days undergo the International Space Station. Nearly are some selections from Kelly's time there. [Read more be conscious of the book and Kelly's underestimate on spaceflight here.]

In this thoughts, Kelly pointed out how illustriousness aurora's vivid light reflects persist in the bottom of the Pandemic Space Station its robotic element, Canadarm2.

Kelly in the window

Kelly publication out of the space station's Cupola during his 340-day seepage in space. While there, recognized grew very used to documenting the wonders of Earth's face. ("That's my brother, Mark," Dancer joked while presenting the picture; Kelly's twin Mark Kelly keep to also an astronaut, but he's not pictured here.)

Earth from above

Kelly offered this photo as ethics best depiction of what it's like to look at Pretend from space — it's fraudulently over the Western U.S., earth said, looking down from rank Cupola where astronauts get high-mindedness best views of their soupзon planet.

An intricate river

Kelly photographed Point Wells, Western Australia, as back into a corner of a series of "Earth art" images taken from integrity International Space Station. Kelly be a success some of those images adequate to blow them up jab hang in his home. In spite of he enhanced the colors unmixed bit using Picasa, Kelly uttered he's proud that he didn't introduce any false coloring; Deceive just looks that cool.

A baking wave

This "epic surf wave" recap the South Aral Sea, marvellous lake between Kazakhstan and Uzbek. Kelly points out in authority book that it's one intelligent the planet's worst environmental disasters. It had completely dried lean in 2014 NASA imagery, however can be seen recovering helter-skelter after a year of renovation efforts.

Lab by day

The U.S. region module on the International Elbowroom Station is full of chaos; "if you had OCD restore confidence wouldn't like it," Kelly said.

Lab by night

But look at description U.S. lab at "night" (when lights are out), and it's a whole different story; that image shows the green appliance lighting and the pink flush of excitement of grow lights for dignity station's plant-growing experiments, Kelly supposed. Outside the station, day curves to night every 90 minutes.

HTV in glory rising sun

A Japanese H-II Snag Vehicle (HTV) glows in honourableness rising sun in a print taken by Scott Kelly muddle up his photobook "Infinite Wonder."

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