A couple of years ago astronaut Chris Hadfield began wowing us with photos of Earth taken during his time on the International Space Station. (You can see some of the more than 40,000 photos he shot in the gallery at the bottom of this story.)
Now comes Scott Kelly, the U.S. astronaut who is spending a year on the ISS. He’s been shooting and tweeting some amazing photos of our dear planet as well. He has shot so many, we’ve selected some of the standouts from July only. Check them out:
Kelly is in on the ISS for a year as part of Human Research Program. Here’s what the agency says about it:
The One-Year Mission will focus on seven categories of research. In March 2015, American Astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will begin collaborative investigations on the International Space Station (ISS). They will reside on the ISS for a year, which is twice as long as typical U.S. missions. These investigations are expected to yield beneficial knowledge on the medical, psychological and biomedical challenges faced by astronauts during long-duration spaceflight.
So the two have been on the station for more than 128 days (since publication). You can learn all you want to about the mission and astronauts on the agency’s one-year mission page.
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A couple of years ago astronaut Chris Hadfield began wowing us with photos of Earth taken during his time on the International Space Station. (You can see some of the more than 40,000 photos he shot in the gallery at the bottom of this story.)
Now comes Scott Kelly, the U.S. astronaut who is spending a year on the ISS. He’s been shooting and tweeting some amazing photos of our dear planet as well. He has shot so many, we’ve selected some of the standouts from July only. Check them out:
Kelly is in on the ISS for a year as part of Human Research Program. Here’s what the agency says about it:
The One-Year Mission will focus on seven categories of research. In March 2015, American Astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will begin collaborative investigations on the International Space Station (ISS). They will reside on the ISS for a year, which is twice as long as typical U.S. missions. These investigations are expected to yield beneficial knowledge on the medical, psychological and biomedical challenges faced by astronauts during long-duration spaceflight.
So the two have been on the station for more than 128 days (since publication). You can learn all you want to about the mission and astronauts on the agency’s one-year mission page.
Jake Ellison can be reached at 206-448-8334 or jakeellison@seattlepi.com. Follow Jake on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Jake_News. Also, swing by and *LIKE* his page on Facebook.
If Google Plus is your thing, check out our science coverage here.
from The Big Science Blog http://ift.tt/1heho0U
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