Mars-love pictures train a dramatic peek of our possess planet

A few pictures shot from the World Place Situation (ISS) on the weekend will perhaps remind you more of Mars than Earth.

Shared by NASA astronaut and recent ISS crew member Shane Kimbrough, the fine pictures (under) with out a doubt train sand dunes in Saudi Arabia and neighboring Yemen.

“Belief we would possibly perchance well also very well be on yet any other planet with this describe but appears these dunes are in Saudi Arabia,” Kimbrough, at screen on his third commute to house, wrote in a tweet.

Belief we would possibly perchance well also very well be on yet any other planet with this describe but appears these dunes are in Saudi Arabia. pic.twitter.com/h8rfZod31A

— Shane Kimbrough (@astro_kimbrough) Can also merely 30, 2021

Commenting on the 2nd describe, the American astronaut said: “Striking colours and formations of these sand dunes in Yemen shut to the southern Saudi Arabian border.”

Striking colours and formations of these sand dunes in Yemen shut to the southern Saudi Arabian border. pic.twitter.com/vREORvdpv7

— Shane Kimbrough (@astro_kimbrough) Can also merely 29, 2021

And yes, Mars does comprise sand dunes — you would possibly perchance well well peep a few of them in the pictures under, captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

Kimbrough, love his fellow house place crew member Thomas Pesquet, is a fervent photographer, with both astronauts clearly taking part in the enviable vantage level that the ISS supplies around 250 miles above the bottom of Earth (inspect Pesquet’s fine pictures here).

Most of the pictures taken aboard the house place are captured from the Cupola, a seven-window module offering panoramic views of Earth and house, though more no longer too lengthy up to now astronauts were shedding by docked Crew Dragon spacecraft, with their decent-sized house windows also offering gargantuan probably for avid astronaut photographers.

To desire their shots, ISS crew individuals can gain from an intensive vary of first price cameras and lenses, most of them supplied by Nikon, though recent Sony devices are also amongst the series.

Below are a whole lot of more pictures captured no longer too lengthy up to now by Kimbrough, this one exhibiting Bahrain and Qatar in conjunction with phase of a Cygnus cargo spacecraft that arrived on its newest commute to the house place in February.

Qatar and Bahrain looking gargantuan on the support of the Cygnus cargo automobile solar array. Cygnus will be with us for roughly yet any other month and can leave with a form of our trash. pic.twitter.com/FeYoh7Tyi5

— Shane Kimbrough (@astro_kimbrough) Can also merely 28, 2021

Within the describe under we can peep a inserting rock formation shut to Wyoming’s Bighorn River.

No longer too lengthy up to now caught a shot of this fine rock formation in Northeast Wyoming shut to Bighorn River, which is a tributary of the Yellowstone River and is approximately 461 miles lengthy. pic.twitter.com/K32NSLEjLK

— Shane Kimbrough (@astro_kimbrough) Can also merely 18, 2021

For these four pictures, Kimbrough angled his lens a bit a ways from Earth to steal a honest looking orbital first mild all over 5 seconds.

Progression of an orbital first mild in about 5 seconds. Staunch morning from the @Space_Station! pic.twitter.com/tzHdHMDe1e

— Shane Kimbrough (@astro_kimbrough) Can also merely 7, 2021

Both Shane Kimbrough and Thomas Pesquet will dwell on board the house place unless October 2021, so we can request an on a common basis movement of unbelievable pictures over the coming months.