Xin Zhiyuan Guide Have you seen the earth from space? That blue planet is so beautiful! On November 2, in 2000, mankind arrived at the orbital laboratory of the International Space Station for the first time. In the past 20 years, people living on the International Space Station have taken millions of pictures of the Earth. And the following 17 photos taken on the space station will bring you a different shock.
Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to enter space on April 12 in 1961. Gagarin described the scene he saw in this way: “The sky is very dark, and the earth is blue, so everything seems very clear.” It is also the first time that humans have seen the earth outside the earth. After that, aerospace technology has developed rapidly, and mankind has even built a “space house”-space station. On November 2, 2000, mankind arrived at the orbital laboratory of the International Space Station for the first time. In the past 20 years, people living on the International Space Station have taken millions of pictures of the Earth, like vibrant deserts, churning storms, spectacular volcanic eruptions…NASA astronaut Mike Massimino once said to the Washington Post: How can human eyes bear such beautiful things? Now, let’s take a look at the 17 best photos taken from the space station those are “unbearable by the human eye”.
Photo1 The glacier area at the source of Rio de la Colonia in southern Chile in December 2000
Photo2 A reservoir on the Colorado River-Lake Powell, located in Glen Lai Valley National Recreation Area Park and Grand Stairs-Escalante National Memorial Park on September 6, 2016
Photo3 A narrow barrier island protected Venice’s lagoon from storm waves in the northern Adriatic Sea on May 9, 2014
Photo4 Astronaut Scott Kelly posted the photo on Twitter and wrote: “The sun is tanning!” The last sunrise I saw from space and I am leaving on March 1, 2016
Photo5 The sun’s rays were blocked by a row of cumulonimbus clouds on July 20, 2018
Photo6 Astronaut Scott Kelly posted the photo of Australia taken from the International Space Station on Twitter, with the caption Earth Art# A Leap # Australia Mainland
Photo7 When the space station passed through the Iranian desert, a staff member captured this unusual geological pattern. As time goes on, when the wind erodes the stacked rock layers, it exposes the shape and color of the folds on February 14, 2014
Ptoto 8 Scott Kelly posted the photo of the Mediterranean coast of France taken from the International Space Station on Instagram in March 2016
Photo 9 Scott Kelly posted the photo on Twitter, with explanatory note goodevening japan on July 25, 2015
Photo 10 The colorful salt pond south of the port city of Sfax in Tunisia on June 19, 2015
Photo 11 Astronauts on the International Space Station took the photo of Paris. It turns out that Paris is known as the “City of Lights” for no reason at midnight on April 8, 2015
Photo 12 A thunderstorm over the South China Sea on July 29, 2016
Photo 13 Astronaut Nick Haig posted the photo of Hurricane Dorian on Twitter. He wrote: “When you stare into its eyes from above, you can feel the power of the storm” on September 2, 2019
Photo 14 Scott Kelly shared the photo of the Bahamas taken on the International Space Station on Twitter. The title of the photo is: The Bahamas, your watercolor brushstrokes are always refreshing on July 19, 2015
Photo 15 Scott Kelly posted the photo on Twitter with a text saying: The Himalayas, an icy lake on January 6, 2016
Photo 16 Astronauts on the International Space Station captured the volcanic ash and gas plume erupting from the Recock volcano in the Kuril Islands in the North Pacific in the early morning of June 22, 2019
Photo 17 The west coast of southern Africa taken by the International Space Station in April 2019
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