Thomas Pesquet chegou à Estação Espacial Internacional em abril e, desde então, parece que o astronauta francês não perdeu tempo a atualizar a respetiva página no Twitter com algumas das fotografias mais belas já partilhadas a partir desta perspetiva privilegiada.
A 400km de distância da Terra, a Estação Espacial Internacional tem uma perspetiva única do nosso planeta, permitindo aos ocupantes captar imagens de praticamente todas as zonas do globo nas várias fases do dia.
Abaixo pode ver algumas das fotografias partilhadas por Pesquet, astronauta que durante a sua estadia na Estação Espacial Internacional deve aproveitar para captar mais deste tipo de imagens.
I like when our trajectory leads us along a coast (West Africa here). Like sailing on a ship and flying in an airplane combined… best of both worlds! #MissionAlpha pic.twitter.com/xIIQSwrx27
— Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro) May 5, 2021
From space you get another perspective. Looking at the ice in this lake in #Canada I see shapes... like when looking at clouds on Earth. #MissionAlpha https://t.co/rHG1m2yYRH pic.twitter.com/taPNTNidbM
— Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro) May 7, 2021
A view that brings back memories, the Soyuz that brought me to the @Space_Station in 2016 for #Proxima was docked to the exact same port. This one is @novitskiy_iss's, Pyotr's and @Astro_Sabot's, flying over Cuba. #MissionAlpha https://t.co/IdGQjXIadn pic.twitter.com/m6WiCpYgrb
— Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro) May 10, 2021
Un des rares ports avant l’immensité du désert, dans le Sahara occidental. Deux routes fendent l’intérieur des terres, une autre longe l'océan, et c’est tout A town on the northwest coast of Africa. A road goes inland, and a road follows the ocean.https://t.co/mPMeJKL9uU pic.twitter.com/UVovztSSbA
— Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro) May 10, 2021
Mecca! So bright at night that it ended up overexposed, as I wanted to see the city lights too. Happy end of Ramadan!La Mecque ! Elle brillait si fort que la photo est un peu surexposée, mais je voulais absolument qu'on voit les lumières de la ville. Joyeuse fête ! #EidMubarak pic.twitter.com/q7hYk4efm1
— Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro) May 12, 2021
I remember taking a picture of the Quiberon peninsular during #Proxima. It is funny to think that I recognise the area easily from space whereas unfortunately I didn't get to visit it for real before #MissionAlpha! #Bretagne pic.twitter.com/mq2K4Bz8d3
— Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro) May 13, 2021
Guinea Bissau , that I haven't seen since my last mission four years ago (no I didn't visit all the places I photograph from space, unfortunately! https://t.co/U9cV9J4ylL #MissionAlpha pic.twitter.com/aWKeBuO7dg
— Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro) May 14, 2021
The Upsala glacier in Argentina. The majestic spectacle with slow ice waves that flow into the blue water is beautiful – but also worrying as we can see the glaciers are getting smaller from space. #MissionAlpha #ClimateChange #EarthFocus https://t.co/jbiqVMUHpa pic.twitter.com/LHUU8Yp0G4
— Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro) May 15, 2021
The famous #KeyWest and the special Highway 1 that hops from island to island all the way south. The Naval Air Station Key West base is remarkable with its star-shaped airfield. https://t.co/5YC7vsfAbR #MissionAlpha pic.twitter.com/uAoqZDjYUt
— Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro) May 15, 2021
Spring has not taken over all of the northern hemisphere – three examples in Asia where snow can still be found. #MissionAlpha https://t.co/LongHxMHsf pic.twitter.com/iEGQloFCiu
— Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro) May 16, 2021
Hints of red and ochre, grey rocks and white clouds, flying over the Sahara (a plateau in #Chad here) is never boring. @astro_luca called it the skin of the Earth I think, and he is right, it does resemble skin. https://t.co/M0IOQ9LlS6 #MissionAlpha pic.twitter.com/NEfwl9lsPz
— Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro) May 17, 2021
More #EarthArt around the White Nile, which is obviously blue in reality https://t.co/DZQrJxEEg2 pic.twitter.com/ancuX35RMy
— Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro) May 18, 2021
