Andreas Mogensen became the first Dane in orbit when he arrived at the International Space Station ( ISS ) as part of SpaceX ’s Crew-7 in August 2023 .
After just over six months aboard the orbital outpost , the spaceman is now preparing to maneuver back to Earth with his three colleagues aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft .
A specific engagement for the coming back mission has yet to be go under , but it ’s expected to take place in the coming weeks .
Andreas Mogensen/ESA/NASA
As he begins to turn his attention to terra firma , Mogensen accept meter out on Thursday to share some of the remarkable Earth images ( below ) that he was able to appropriate from the station over the last half - twelvemonth or so :
He also posted these telling Earth photos on his social media provender during the last six months :
If you want to get an idea of how tight we are aviate over the Earth , and how quick you have to be to get the photo you want , take a look at these photograph of a snow - covered Grand Canyon . I took these photos 30 second after I take the photo of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating…pic.twitter.com/qgGZpZzGko
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& mdash ; Andreas Mogensen ( @Astro_Andreas)February 24 , 2024
I have never colligate Saudi Arabia with volcanism , but it has the high concentration of caldera that I have seen so far on this mission . Calderas are the drop - in top of volcano that appears after an clap .
Is there another place on Earth with a high act of…pic.twitter.com/gYLA88MxNT
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& mdash ; Andreas Mogensen ( @Astro_Andreas)February 18 , 2024
Eye of Quebec
aviate over the Earth , I see so many different sites . Here in the eastern part of Canada is the Manicouagan Crater , made by an impact of a metorite about 200 million year ago . The meteorite was around 5 kilometres in diameter and create the roughly 100 kilometer wide…pic.twitter.com/odRymSc15u
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& mdash ; Andreas Mogensen ( @Astro_Andreas)February 12 , 2024
I was lucky enough to capture most of the Californian coast near Los Angeles , from Malibu to Long Beach , on a sunny day with little to no clouds . Each picture show shows a short part of the west coast , include sites like Venice Beach with the Santa Monica Pier , Los Angeles…pic.twitter.com/pDWupTFOxD
& mdash ; Andreas Mogensen ( @Astro_Andreas)February 11 , 2024
Today is on the button five months since we launched from@NASAKennedyComplex 39A , which also means that our military mission is slowly drawing to a close . It ’s unbelievable how quickly those five month have passed . Yet , paradoxically , it also seems like a lifetime ago that I was tell goodbye…pic.twitter.com/QJwpF3Hj2e
& mdash ; Andreas Mogensen ( @Astro_Andreas)January 26 , 2024
The top of the iceberg
I have to include that if you had asked me before this mission , if you could see icebergs with your defenseless eye from space , I would have said , “ No way ” .
Turns out that you could ! We have been envision rafts of berg lately in the south Atlantic . Perhaps it’s…pic.twitter.com/qGY2CUCSfp
& mdash ; Andreas Mogensen ( @Astro_Andreas)December 3 , 2023
Mogensen name his first clock time in space as “ a dream get true , where I got to live and work on the International Space Station for more than six month , conducting scientific discipline from Denmark , Europe , and the world , in areas like our immune scheme , water filtration , virtual world , and how we sleep on the Space Station . ”
In a nod to his photography , he added : “ I also used many hour of my spare time in Cupola , claim marvelous picture of Earth and seeing our down in the mouth major planet as one . From green forest , sandlike deserts , and more volcano than I can count , each picture indicate what our place in the world has to declare oneself . ”
While you might imagine that the unique advantage point of the ISS 250 stat mi above Earth would make it easy to capture amazing Earth pictures , it can actually take a neat raft of planning . An earlier ISS inhabitant , Thomas Pesquet , also earned a reputation for taking arresting Earth pic , and he revealedjust how much effort was neededto nail each shot .
