Typhoon Haiyan is
photographed by Astronaut Karen L Nyberg aboard the International Space Station
Not exact matches
NASA
astronaut exploring Moon surface
photographed by Apollo 14 crew (Photo: Dennis Hallinan / Alamy)
The photo depicted
astronaut Buzz Aldrin as
photographed by fellow traveller Neil Armstrong, and the issue sold 8,527,600 copies, which was actually down from the previous week, when 8,666,219 sold.
Which is at least a bit strange, in that it was an artifact produced
by the much - deplored military - industrial complex» the
photographs of Planet Earth taken
by the
astronauts of Apollo VIII on their Christmas 1968 circumnavigation of the moon» that gave the new environmentalism its icon and something of its emotional power.
The
photographs of space taken
by our
astronauts have been published all over the place.
Lightning captured in a
photograph by ESA
astronaut Paolo Nespoli from on board the International Space Station (Credit: ESA / NASA)
Lightning captured in a
photograph by ESA
astronaut Paolo Nespoli from on board the International Space Station
Long known
by residents and visitors as one of the most spectacularly beautiful ecosystems in the world, the Belize Barrier Reef was recently seen from a brand new angle when NASA
astronaut Jeff Williams, currently on assignment aboard the International Space Station, posted high - resolution
photographs of the reef on his Twitter feed.
That collaging of America's fault lines runs from his combine Canyon, in which he juxtaposes a
photograph of his son with a stuffed American bald eagle to invoke the myth of Jupiter and Ganymede, to his silkscreen paintings of the 1960s in which
photographs of
astronauts and farms are overshadowed
by the face of assassinated president John F Kennedy.
They seem prophetic of the famous
photographs that would be taken, a decade and a half later,
by astronauts and which show the Earth in all its oneness.
The space agency's Scientific Visualization Studio has created a seven - minute mix of animation, restored audio and
photographs, narrated
by Chaikin, that shows how, while William Anders, the lunar module pilot, snapped the
photographs, each
astronaut contributed in some way.
Here's a video clip taking you from one such view, the famous Earthrise
photograph taken
by NASA
astronauts orbiting the moon in 1968, to an astonishing video version of the same scene shot from the Kaguya Lunar Explorer satellite in 2007.
And that's one reason why I'm sharing this
photograph taken
by an
astronaut aboard the International Space Station last month.