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Amazing! German astronaut photographs snow-covered Greece from the International Space Station (incredible pic)

In December 2020, Maurer was assigned his first mission to the International Space Station

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Impressive photos of winter Greece were posted on his Twitter account by the German astronaut Matthias Maurer, who is currently on the International Space Station (ISS), as part of the “Cosmic Kiss” mission.

Wintery Greece in Blue & White ?? Not so easy to distinguish snow from clouds in some places, but next to the capital Athens, I could also clearly see the Euboean Gulf – home to the narrow Euripus Strait. #CosmicKiss #EarthObservation pic.twitter.com/0mBd87PrAj

— Matthias Maurer (@astro_matthias) February 8, 2022

“Wintery Greece in blue and white. Not so easy to distinguish snow from clouds in some places, but next to the capital Athens, I could also clearly see the Euboean Gulf – home to the narrow Euripus Strait”, the 52-year-old astronaut writes in his post.

In December 2020, Maurer was assigned his first mission to the International Space Station, known as “Cosmic Kiss”, for which he left last November.

He is the second European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut to fly under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program as part of the SpaceX Crew-3.

 

Cool, calm & collected for return ? Before @SpaceX‘s cargo Dragon departed last month, Kayla & I transferred items from the Minus Eighty Degree Laboratory Freezer (MELFI) to polar units. Ice bricks & a double cold bag helped preserve the @ISS_research for analysis on Earth ?‍? pic.twitter.com/LKIWsdalAh

— Matthias Maurer (@astro_matthias) February 2, 2022

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