NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who is 69 years old, recently arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) for his fourth visit to the orbiting outpost. He photographed London at night from an altitude of 400 km, and shared the photo on the X platform (formerly Twitter). Pettit used a Nikon Z9 camera with a 200mm focal length and other professional settings to capture this impressive image.
Pettit also took a unique photo last week as the Polaris Dawn spacecraft was returning to Earth after a five-day mission. During his previous visits to the ISS, he has also pleasantly impressed his subscribers with his space photos, so expect more such photos during this six-month mission.
Particularly popular are his photos of star trails taken in 2012Pettit’s other exciting work is an infrared image of the river delta taken in the same year.with Nikon D3s, where he used multiple 30-second exposures. He captured the flora, bright with purple hues, using a modified Nikon camera.
Star trail from @Space_Station, with ghostly blue outline of a solar panel.
— Don Pettit (@astro_Pettit) July 19, 2024
Multiple atmospheric layers are visible due to solar driven excitation of atomic oxygen (green) and hydroxyl (-OH) radicals (orange-pink). The star trails become curved near the horizon due to the… pic.twitter.com/F9HUVcEf9e
While many astronauts are simply enjoying the views from the ISS, the ones like Pettit, Matthew Dominick and Thomas Pesquet are actively taking pictures of what they see. And that pleases their subscribers, who can admire the beauty of the space through their lenses.
Earlier we reported on how an astronaut from space noticed a mysterious phenomenon in the Earth’s atmosphere.
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