Astro-Porn of the Day: Photo-blog from the International Space Station.

[mckitterick]

Colonel Chris Hadfield is a Canadian Astronaut currently living in space aboard the International Space Station. He has a Tumblr account and regularly posts images he takes out the window of the ISS. Just wow. His Tumblr is a great reason, all by itself, to get an account.

Here are a few examples:

Boston at night, glowing under a trace of fog:


Venezuelan valley framed by misty clouds - mysterious, beautiful, and surreal:


Full Moon rising. So near, and yet...

Click the images to see Colonel Chris Hadfield's Tubmlr blog.

Chris

Comments

[renniemom.livejournal.com]

Wow. Thanks for sharing. What a great reminder of our place in the world.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

I know! Some of the most-powerful images of the Space Age are of the Earth from space. Like those famous Apollo shots:


Click the image to see the NASA Earth-from-space gallery.

Or, of course, the "Pale Blue Dot":


Click the image to see more.