Photo astronaut

Photos made by Dutch astronaut and physicist - Andre Kuipers
He did an amazing series of photographs of our planet from space as a part of the expedition to the International Space Station.

Alps





Paris at night.


Sahara Desert.


Night view of the planet


Clouds


Traces of aircraft flown


Planes in the 242 miles down on the way to America


Ice spiral near the Kamchatka


Sandy pattern Saharan


Canada


Moonrise


Structure in Mauritania
Richat

Lake Powell and the Colorado River


The crater from a meteorite in Canada


Moon


One of the Gilbert Islands


Gibraltar


Clouds


Lakes in Australia


The channels in the desert of Somalia


Over the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalayas, Kingdom of Bhutan and Nepal in the background


Denmark and Copenhagen, and Oslo, Norway, Sweden and Stockholm, northern Germany and then


The reflection of the sun in a river in Brazil


Salt Lake City


Etna volcano


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