The Dutch physician and European Space Agency astronaut was selected to participate in International Space Station expeditions 30 and 31. Leaving the planet on December 21st 2011 and returning the following July, Andre Kuipers captured some absolutely incredible images of our planet.

400 kilometers above Earth


The Australian Outback

A bizarre interaction between light and the sunset

Canada

A comet as seen from ISS

Flattened Moon beams

ISS at MOONLIGHT

Sahara Desert and the Atlantic Ocean

The Moonrise

The ISS Observatories

The Sahara Desert and Mauritania

over the Somalian Desert

The Soyuz – the apparatus Kuipers used to return to Earth

The Super Moon
By on January 23, 2014 in
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