Don Pettit continues to offer us nice views of Earth from the Worldwide Area Station (ISS).
The NASA astronaut skilled his digital camera on the northern lights not too long ago, posting on X (previously Twitter) a brief video of the ghostly phenomenon flickering over nighttime metropolis lights.
“Flying over aurora; intensely inexperienced,” Pettit wrote within the Monday (Jan. 5) X post, which did not specify which a part of the planet was pictured.
Flying over aurora; intensely inexperienced. pic.twitter.com/leUufKFnBBJanuary 6, 2025
Pettit, who arrived on the Worldwide Area Station in September aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, is understood for his off-Earth images expertise.
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In October, for instance, he snapped a long-exposure picture that depicted metropolis lights in northern Mexico as brilliant, dynamic streaks. That very same month, he photographed a sphere of water that appeared quite a bit like Jupiter, a colourful little ersatz world he created on the ISS utilizing meals coloring.
In November, Pettit captured the path SpaceX’s big Starship megarocket made in Earth’s environment throughout its sixth-ever check flight. And in December, he posted on X a surprisingly sharp shot of distant stars and galaxies, which he took with assistance from a home made star tracker.
Then, on Jan. 1, he posted a gorgeous northern lights photo, a really seasonal one that includes pink and inexperienced aurorae.
The present six-month-long ISS mission is the fourth spaceflight for the 69-year-old Pettit, the oldest energetic member of NASA’s astronaut corps.
He has two different long-duration ISS stays beneath his belt, one in 2002-2003 and the opposite in 2011-2012, and in addition flew a two-week mission to the orbiting lab in 2008.
