Photos from Space

Five months spent in space Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli. Upon returning to Earth, he has published more than 700 images on the site flickr.com, made during his stay on the space station IWC. In the photos you can see the cities, deserts, valleys, rivers and eddies ...

12 photos via spiegel.de

1. Lake, the name of which the photographer was silent.





2. The desert in Saudi Arabia.



3. Mountains.



4. Reservoir Powell (Utah, USA)



5. Island Onekotan. Zametёnny snow volcano on the island, which belongs to the northern group of the Kuril Islands, is particularly impressive.



6. The picture in weightlessness.



7. River Delta. Only from space can be observed structure of the Earth, which occurred over millions of years.



8. Clouds. The view from the space station.



9. Ebon Atoll. Heart of coral in the Pacific Ocean.



10. The charm of the ocean.



11. The islands on the river Tiete in Brazil.



12. Back to the Earth. May 24 Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli, in the capsule "Soyuz", landed in the Kazakh desert.



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