View from above: Space travel has its advantages

Photos by astronaut Terry W. Virts

Earth from space. It never ceases to amaze how small we look from even a few kilometers up. Terry W. Virts, prior to boarding a Soyuz space capsule to come back home on Thursday June 11th, he snapped some pictures of the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, Mount Ararat in Turkey, and the partially frozen Hala Lake of the Chidamu Basin in China, and uploaded them all on Twitter.

 

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