Snapshot 📷 | At this very moment, seven humans - from the US, Russia, Kazakhstan and Japan - are on board the International Space Station, orbiting the Earth every 90 minutes at around 17,500 miles per hour – or five miles per second.
And that’s just inside the ISS. Earlier this month Nicole Mann and Koichi Wakata completed their second spacewalk, spending six hours and 41 minutes building additions and improvements to the station’s solar power capabilities. It was the 259th space walk in the station’s history.
The moon as seen from the ISS while passing over eastern China near the Yellow Sea coast on Thursday, February 2. It is described as a waxing gibbous moon, gibbous meaning the phase between a half moon and full moon, and waxing meaning it is getting bigger. After a full moon it enters the waning gibbous phase
Koichi Wakata is seen traversing the exterior of the ISS – while travelling at 17,500 miles an hour. The mission is Wakata’s seventh journey into space and his third long-duration stay on the ISS. He was also part of three missions to build the ISS, which was completed in 2011. However, it has been continuously manned since 2000
An orbital sunrise. The ISS circumnavigates the Earth once every 90 minutes from a height of around 260 miles, meaning astronauts on board enjoy 16 dawns every day as they emerge from our planet’s shadow. This particular orbital sunrise was captured above the south Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Argentina on Wednesday, February 6
While passing over the south Pacific the ISS captured this stunning shot of Maturei Vavao, Vahanga, Tenarungo and Tenanaro, uninhabited atolls in French Polynesia. The country is comprised of 118 individual islands and atolls spread across an area roughly the size of Europe – however, its combined land mass is only about 1,400 square miles, and home to around 280,000 people
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