Millions of people use twitter to show their photos to the readers. However, only a few shots can be compared to those, that a published by Paolo Nespoli. He has advantage over other users: he’s astronaut on the ISS board. His Earth photos refresh every single day. @ASTRO_PAOLO
This shot was made on the 16 th of February, after a few minutes since the rocket had started its flight. Arian-5’s exhaust tray looks like a thin stroke under ISS manipulator.
He downloaded this heart-shaped atoll on St. Valentine’s Day. «It’s in the Pacific ocean, about thousand km from Solomon isles. I was looking for something special for quite a long time, but my attempts were not granted. And then, some days later, when doing my morning exercises, I raised my head and saw this atoll. I took the camera immediately and made this wonderful photo. I thought, it was a good irony: I couldn’t find it myself, so it found me. Just the way love does, doesn’t it?
It’s the night before Christmas. The commentary runs: «The UK and Ireland look like a huge Christmas tree!» .
«Moon Ping-Pong»
«That’s how we see a lightening from space. This one was somewhere under Brazil. It’s diameter is about 80 km» , – he says.
This miracle was shot on the 15 th of January, here you can see the inversed trace of planes. «It absolutely proves that the Earth is inhabited» , – Paolo writes.
That thrilling icy earthscape from the north of Canada was shot on the 11 th of January.
And this is Cuba.
Tjete-river, Brazil.
The desert of Somali
The frozen Bairab lake, China
The abstract picture of ocean
Sicily and Etna volcano
Picturesque scenery of the south Australia
Los-Roques archipelago, Venezuella
The red algae in a sea
Blue ocean water
The 25 th of December. The ISS staff, including board-engineer Catherine Coleman, staff commander Scott Kelly and board-engineer Paolo Nespoli, and other 26 members of this long expedition, congratulates the people of the Earth.