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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Earth Seen From Space

Nespoli's second space mission during 2010/2011 yielded an incredible 26,000 images of life in space.

"I was doing something which was very interesting for me, but it made me more happy that I could share the images," Nespoli said.

The International Space Station (ISS) orbits at a height of around 400 kilometers above the Earth's surface and travels at 20,000 kilometers-per-hour.

"The impact we are having on this planet is surely microscopic when we look at one single event, but when you look at it and you repeat these events all over - a few miles across here, a few miles across there, a river here, a river there, a city here, a city there -- and it's clear we are a major force in shaping the crust of this planet," Nespoli said.

"I would, for sure, send up the politicians (some of them we should leave there!) to change the way they think, but I would also send up philosophers, journalists and theologians," he said.

You see the atmosphere which covers the earth like a blanket. It looked like if I would blow on it too hard it would float away. We know if that get's corrupted in a certain way that's the end," Nespoli said.

This is a picture of the earth we seem to look very beautiful from a distance in outer space. This picture was taken by Italian astronaut, Paolo Nespoli captured a series of remarkable images of Earth during a six-month stay on the International Space Station.
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