10 photos from space that will take your breath away

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Fragments from the book of Oleg Artemiev - a man who went into outer space three times.

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Have you ever wondered why the aurora appears?

Mikhail Lomonosov was the first to try to explain the essence of the phenomenon. He found that the northern lights are electrical in nature.

Most of the charged particles of the solar wind that reach our planet are reflected. However, some still manage to break into the Earth's magnetic field. These particles form a glow when they collide with air molecules in the upper part of the atmosphere. The colors yellow, green and red are due to the oxygen content in the air, while nitrogen is responsible for the blue and purple hues.

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The first thing that I saw in the window when I arrived at the station was such a "leaf" in South America.

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Our planet is full of wonders and amazing places. These include mountain peaks lost in the clouds.

For example, Kilimanjaro is one of the largest volcanoes in the world and the highest point on the African continent (5895 meters above sea level). Once it was an active volcano, but now its peak is covered with snow, thanks to which it got its name. Translated from the Swahili language, it means "sparkling mountain".

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Once in my spare moment I looked out the window and took a picture of the mysterious salt marsh lake: Zhaman-Akkol, Kazakhstan.

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I think that you immediately recognized Baikal - the deepest lake on the planet, the largest natural reservoir of fresh water, the pearl of Russia. Its average depth is 744 meters, and the largest is 1 642!

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Look at what a beautiful "rose" I saw when I looked out the window. Doesn't it seem like it?

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I decided to take this photo as we flew over China. Together with Alex Gerst, we carefully examined it, and it seems that I still managed to catch the largest architectural monument - the Great Wall of China! It's rare that anyone can find it, but I did. I hunted for her for a long time!

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Uluru Rock is rightfully considered one of the most amazing sights not only in Australia, but on our entire planet. Uluru is located almost in the very center of Australia - it is often called the heart of the continent. Formed about 680 million years ago, the 348-meter orange-brown Uluru Rock is considered the largest single rock in the world. Its length is 3.6 km, width - about 3 km, and the base is all cut into caves, decorated with ancient cave paintings and stone carvings. The famous mountain is also known for its ability to change color depending on the weather and time of day.

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Smokes one of the volcanoes of the Kuril Islands. In general, there are 68 surface volcanoes and 100 underwater ones on the Kuriles. Among them, there are about forty active ones.

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Everest is the highest peak of the Earth. The main northern peak of the mountain is located within the Chinese territory, its height is 8,848 meters above sea level.

Oleg Artemiev is a test pilot, Hero of the Russian Federation, an ISS flight engineer, who has two space flights, three spacewalks with a total duration of more than 20 hours. And Oleg is also the most famous cosmonaut-blogger of the Runet.

In his debut book Space and the ISS: How Everything Really Works, the author shows everything that is usually hidden from human eyes. You will learn how to become an astronaut, what the ISS looks like from the inside, what experiments are carried out on board the station, what astronauts do in their free time, and what wonders of the world look like from space.