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Monday, April 16, 2012

Earth as you've never seen it before: The best pictures of our planet taken from the orbiting Space Station

An astronaut on the International Space Station has designed a 'tripod' for taking spectacular night-time pictures of Earth - quite a technical feat when you're on board an orbiting craft that moves at more than four miles a second.

Andre Kuipers installed 'Nightpod' - a motorised camera that compensates for the hurtling speeds of the ISS, by tracking points on Earth's surface. The results are some of the most spectacular pictures ever taken from space.

Moonset, captured by ESA astronaut, Andrei Kuipers

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2129386/Moonset.html

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