“ Thought I finally had the pyramids, but these are the smaller ones further south. Gosh they’re not easy to spot from space! Still looking 😉 “ /via Thomas Pesquet/ESA
“ A boat in the middle of the nothingness, crazy to think that we could have been the closest humans to those sailors as we flew overhead…“ /via Thomas Pesquet/ESA
“ I seldom take pictures of USA: @astro_kimbrough has that covered, but he was on the phone during this pass, so here’s the city of Charlotte “ /via Thomas Pesquet/ESA
“ The beautiful city of @Melbourne! First picture I took where, if you zoom in, you can see cars or maybe trucks… sorry: utes 😉 G’day, mates! “ /via Thomas Pesquet/ESA
“ It was fun to watch the @ZeroRobotics competition while HS students programed autonomous satellites aimed by small bursts from CO2 thrusters “ /via Peggy Whitson/NASA
“ Night passes are magical, a glittering carpet of lights as beautiful as you can imagine! Belgium is easy to spot thanks to its lit motorways“ /via Thomas Pesquet/ESA
“ #Paris at night. I might be biased, but it’s the most beautiful thing I’ve seen yet (picture by friend & #Soyuz commander Oleg Novitsky) “ /via Thomas Pesquet/ESA
“ This is how big the @Space_Station is! You can get disoriented and lost at night, especially when moving and rotating in all directions “ /via Thomas Pesquet/ESA
“ Bien agrippé à la Station: je n’avais pas envie de m’en séparer 😉 J’aime beaucoup la réflexion dans le miroir! Photo prise par Oleg“ /via Thomas Pesquet/ESA
“ This one is very special to me: it’s a great feeling to see from space where one grew up! The town of #Dieppe comes with lots of memories“ /via Thomas Pesquet/ESA
“ Whoever owns that tiny #Bahamas island seems to enjoy a private airstrip: not too shabby. Uncanny detail picked up thanks to the 1150mm lens“ /via Thomas Pesquet/ESA
“ Ever looked straight into a volcano… from space? #Hawaii’s Mauna-Loa volcano with snow on top & lava flow patterns on its slopes. #Proxima “ /via Thomas Pesquet/ESA
“ We moved spare spacesuits to Columbus giving our European module a German twist: the stowage protections look like Lederhosen! #Oktoberfest “ /via Thomas Pesquet/ESA