A NASA astronaut has shared stunning images of the Mother City at night from his perspective on the International Space Station (ISS) currently orbiting in space.
Colonel Douglas Hurley, an American engineer, former Marine Corps pilot and current NASA astronaut shared the mesmerising images to his official Twitter page. The images show aerial views of Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria brightly lit up.
South African cities at night. Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Pretoria. pic.twitter.com/Eo2BaOJyvq
— Col. Doug Hurley (@Astro_Doug) July 5, 2020
The ISS is Earth’s only microgravity laboratory. The modular space station is in low Earth orbit, and hosts a number of science and technology experiments to study the impacts of long-term spaceflight to humans, supporting NASA’s mission to push human presence farther into space.
The ISS programme is a multi-national collaborative project between five participating space agencies: NASA, Roscosmos, JAXA, ESA, and CSA.
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