Tweets in space! Astronaut shares photos from space station (photos)
by ZDNet Author | July 27, 2011 2:00pm PDT | Image 1 of 21
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Astronaut Ron Garan, known on Twitter as @Astro_Ron, has been sharing his unique view with tens of thousands of space fans.
Garan has been photographing Earth, Space Shuttle Atlantis, and his team's spacewalks from his home aboard the International Space Station, where he currently resides as a member of Expedition 27.
In 2009, NASA placed an order for 11 D3S digital SLR cameras with F-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED lenses to be used for photographic documentation in space, according to Nikon. NASA has reportedly used Nikon equipment since the early 1970s, and, to date, has taken more than 700,000 photographs using Nikon equipment.
This most recent image from Garan's Twitter feed is a view from the ISS showing a lone iceberg floating in the ocean in the lower right corner of the image.
Garan has been photographing Earth, Space Shuttle Atlantis, and his team's spacewalks from his home aboard the International Space Station, where he currently resides as a member of Expedition 27.
In 2009, NASA placed an order for 11 D3S digital SLR cameras with F-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED lenses to be used for photographic documentation in space, according to Nikon. NASA has reportedly used Nikon equipment since the early 1970s, and, to date, has taken more than 700,000 photographs using Nikon equipment.
This most recent image from Garan's Twitter feed is a view from the ISS showing a lone iceberg floating in the ocean in the lower right corner of the image.
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Although, to be true, there is no North, South, East or West in space, I think it would have been helpful in some cases to give people viewing these images a reference orientation. We are usually used to viewing maps where North is to the top, South to the bottom, etc. In the images of Mt. Etna for example, it was obviously (at least to those of us who know our geography...) reversed.
@jimfromsd suffering from a dose of can't-shutup-and-enjoy-itis?
@korvan that's what I was thinking
@korvan Thank you for saying it for us!
Thanks for the slideshow. Love pics #2 and #5 especially.
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