Aurora and Earth seen from space, 450,000 pictures taken by astronauts with hand-held camera

Astronaut Donald Petty is the state of the earth taken by the international space station with a handheld camera. Although 11 photos are being introduced, the total number of pictures taken is as much as 450 thousand copies.

There were scenery that became a mysterious mood just by watching, such as the aurora, the artificial island of Dubai, the state of the city seen from the sky, and so on.

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This person is Donald Petty. It seems to be shooting like this.


Photograph entitled "Sandbird" in this photo is the artificial island group Palm Island (left) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and the artificial island under constructionThe World (The World). The World is a big resort with artificial islands arranged like a world map, but from this pictureAlleged ground subsidenceIt seems that it is emerging.


Picture of the early stage of the eruption that occurred on June 12, 2009 in Japan and the Kuril Islands.


It is a tropical rainforest of Bolivia on the left side in 1995 and the right side in 2008. Clearly you can see that the trees are being cut down. As astronauts continue to take pictures for 45 years to record changes in land usage, it seems that it is possible to make such comparisons.


A coral reef located northeast of Independent Country of Papua New Guinea. When the rocket gets on the orbit on the western Pacific, I do not see the appearance of the ground for a long time, but when this landscape can be seen, the astronaut seems to panickly hold a camera. It is also convincing beauty that this photograph is entitled "Small jewel of the sea".


A state of the total solar eclipse seen from outer space. During the total solar eclipse on March 29, 2006, it captured the shadow of the moon that thrusts in Turkey, Cyprus and the northern Mediterranean.


In this picture there is no caption in particular and the point is unknown, but it is very impressive to catch the clouds floating in the sky. (According to the story from the reader, what is shown in this picture is the Kennedy Space Center in NASA's facility, that it is the assembly site of the space shuttle that is built in the white part on the left side of the image.In addition, The two white points along the coast in the central area were the launch site of the space shuttle which appears in the news video such as launch.


In addition, there was a story comment from the reader that it was possible to confirm the Kennedy Space Center of almost the same angle on Google Maps. So I tried to embed it. There is no doubt.

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This aggressive collection of lights is actually a night view of London. The central part of the light is downtown, the streak of light around the road is a roadway, but it has a feeling of dynamism as if it were a living thing.


It is an aurora caused by the oxygen and nitrogen atoms being illuminated by intense sun particles. Some of the astronauts are surely fascinated by their beauty, and they tend to stick to how beautiful the aurora is taken.


Like a painting, the Simpson desert in Australia. The orange band appeared because desert shrubs were burned in flames and the sand underneath it was revealed. As the wind changed direction by 90 degrees after burning from the bottom left, it seems that such a pattern was formed. As shrubs grow again, this scar appears to disappear.


A thick cloud covers the earth. This is the appearance of a storm and seems to have been the subject of the astronaut's interest from the beginning when I started taking pictures. By the way it is said that this picture was taken with a still camera, but now he is shooting with a high end digital camera of Nikon.An announcement that Nikon received the latest model D3S from NASA in December 2009It seems that shooting with a handheld camera will continue in the future.