by The long -time Nasa astronaut Don Pettit, who dared to dare four times in space, is to return from the international space station on Saturday evening. Pettit turns 70 on Sunday.
The scientist invented the first object-as-patent object of capillary drink, space cup or zero-g-Cup, which makes it easier to drink drinks without gravity, and he is also a famous astrofotographer who is known to record unique views of the cosmos.
“One of the things I like to do with my astrofotography is a composition and a perspective that differs from an earth -centered earth that typically points an earthly horizon with the atmosphere on the edge, the limb and then a kind of astronomy, astrophotography, in relation to the space on April 3. with astrophysicists from the space station.
Pettit said that his photography was about the perspective of being in orbit.
“The earth is surprisingly beautiful when its feet are planted firmly on the floor and it is beautiful from space,” said Pettit. “And it is difficult to say what is nicer. I think that is because the room is a unique opportunity that we want to concentrate on the beauty of the orbit. If we have people who live all of their lives in orbit, they would probably think that this is the most beautiful perspective they have ever seen.”
Pettit takes his photos of the dome on the space station, a favorite of crew members, as their seven windows overlook with a view of earth.
Here are some of his most unforgettable views of how it is to live in space that he has captured in the past seven months.
The Milky Way appeared on February 3 on the horizon of the Earth’s Horizont on a photographer who set pettit with a camera with poor light and long duration when the space station circled 259 miles above the coral sea off the coast of the Australian state of Queensland. – Don Pettit/NASA
Pettit, an enthusiastic astrophotographer, sets up camera hardware to photograph research activities in the Kibo laboratory module of the space station on March 15. – NASA
This photo of January 13th of Pettit shows a number of heavenly sights, including the Milky Way, the Zodiacal light, to stir Starlink satellites and stars, similar to the lights. The burned umber band shows Airglow – light from the upper atmosphere of the earth – and the earth’s atmosphere can be seen on the edge. The sun is also about to rise and the urban lights from the earth appear as stripes. – Don Pettit/NASA
Pettit is a witness to SpaceX’s unaffected spaceship 8 in the upper atmosphere and falls back onto the earth on March 6th. – Don Pettit/NASA
The Mediterranean can be seen from the international space station. “Sun Floint from the Mediterranean Sea (infrared and in black and white)”, Pettit described in one post on October 15 on Instagram. “When the sun reflects outside the ocean, aqueous details are shown that are not visible with normal lighting. Small centimeters differences in the sea height are visible and show hidden currents.” – Don Pettit/NASA
Pettit’s 30-second exposure image shows an unexplained green line-up over the Pacific Ocean. – Don Pettit/NASA
The room not only appears dark for astronauts on board the space station. You can also see stars, said Pettit. “I flew a homemade tracking device with which time exposure is required to take photos of star fields,” said Pettit in an article on Instagram. – Don Pettit/NASA
A frame from a Pettit time-lapse video shows engines that fire on a SpaceX Dragon Cargo spaceship after it has been cut off and withdrawn from the forward port of the Harmony module of the station. At that time, the Orbital laboratory rose 259 miles above the Pacific Ocean west of Hawaii. – Don Pettit/NASA
With an empty white laptop display as an illuminator, a polarizing filter and the freezer of the space station, pettit in the microgravitation became thin water ice and unveiled colorful, fragmented ice crystals. The freezer is at minus 140 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 95 degrees Celsius). – Don Pettit/NASA
On January 27, Pettit captures a breathtaking picture of cosmic colors when the sun rises over the Pacific. This picture with long exposure shows the milk that is far above an Aurora and an airglow that seem closer to the horizon of the earth. – Don Pettit/NASA
In October, Pettit and Nasa astronaut Matthew Dominick were stunned that the space station flew through Auroras. “We did not flown through the Aurora; we flew in the Aurora,” wrote pettite on Instagram. “And it was blood -red. Unb prepared, we hastily put up our cameras, four of them, who all snapped as quickly as possible and create a syncoped rhythm that accentuated the artistic representation of nature that was introduced to us.” – Don Pettit/NASA
Pettit documents how light flash shows in a dark night in November clouds over the Pacific Ocean. – Don Pettit/NASA
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