Commander Scott Kelly ishalfway throughhisyear in spacetoday . Whilehis soundbox is slowly degradinginto a stack ofbulging eyeballs and atrophied sinew , his artistic sensibilities are being kept in shape with an endless array of gorgeous configurations to shoot for our vicarious viewing delight .
April 5 , 2015 : The Easter Bunny call the space station . Image credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
April 15 , 2015 : “ Sometimes the world seems to shimmer . ” picture recognition : NASA / Scott Kelly
April 22 , 2015 : 262,000 solar cells lace the wings of the solar arrays to power the International Space Station . picture credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
April 27 , 2015 : “ Sometimes Earth looks like another planet . ” Image credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
May 8 , 2015 : A single ridgepole break up the landscape and spew a deep shadow , evidence of a torn satellite and a traumatic past . Image credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
May 19 , 2015 : branch rivers and tributaries split like fractals . Image credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
May 22 , 2015 : Sandbars and islands in shallow water . Image credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
May 24 , 2015 : Honolulu , Hawaii . Image credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
May 28 , 2015 : rearrange the PMM to a Modern larboard on Node 3 blocked this window , establish it unlikely anyone will use it for photography again . Image reference : NASA / Scott Kelly
June 9 , 2015 : Green fields tile Southeast Asia . paradigm credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
June 14 , 2015 : rainfall brings a gush of green to the African desert . Image credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
June 18 , 2015 : Strips of sand and shadow transform the desert into a complex tapestry of texture . effigy quotation : NASA / Scott Kelly
June 22 , 2015 : Abandoned scrolls from meander rivers tangle the land into a jam of exposed rock candy and sediment . Image credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
June 25 , 2015 : Bare rock scoured by farting , shorten by transitory rivers , and sliced by roads . Image credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
June 27 , 2015 : Thick dunes of the African desertsee from 400 km ( 250 miles ) above the George Sand . Image credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
June 27 , 2015 : A hint of red and gullible aurora tint the satellite while the International Space Station ’s solar panels reign the foreground . paradigm credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
July 2 , 2015 : “ Day 97 . Good night , Moon . ” Image recognition : NASA / Scott Kelly
July 6 , 2015 : Asbrine evaporates , it leaves behind distinctive rings of evaporite minerals like halite , borax , gypsum , and sylvite . prototype deferred payment : NASA / Scott Kelly
July 9 , 2015 : “ Earth without nontextual matter is just Eh . ” figure credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
July 10 , 2015 : TheEye of the Saharais always gorgeous . epitome credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
July 12 , 2015 : Athens , Greece . look-alike acknowledgment : NASA / Scott Kelly
July 13 , 2015 : Early morning aurora in green and flushed . range of a function credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
July 17 , 2015 : Gorgeous Earth tones of deposit - laden rivers rim with bright reflective evaporate deposits . simulacrum credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
July 19 , 2015 : The Florida key of the Bahamas . simulacrum credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
July 19 , 2015 : The Earth , Venus , Jupiter , and the Moon . Image credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
July 22 , 2015 : cherry-red backbone in the African desert with nobs of basics . simulacrum credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
July 25 , 2015 : Night over Japan , with the Soyuz spacecraft connected to the Mini Research Module 1 ( MRM1 ) and a Progress loading tug visible in the foreground . paradigm credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
July 28 , 2015 : Glaciers and height in the Andes Mountains . Image credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
July 29 , 2015 : Star dunesreflect complex pitch winds in a desert of thick sand . Image credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
August 1 , 2015 : Linear dunesin a thinly - mantled desert . Image credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
August 1 , 2015 : A complete sundown on Day 127 . range of a function course credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
August 2 , 2015 : Seasonal stream erode mountains into bajada , buff on the desert floor below . Image credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
August 3 , 2015 : rainwater brings bright green to the Australian outback . Image credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
August 4 , 2015 : “ The thing about abstractionist art : it appear not of this universe . The thing about Earth nontextual matter : it is our world . ” Image credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
August 4 , 2015 : Concentrated waterflow carving the tip off an island . Image acknowledgment : NASA / Scott Kelly
August 6 , 2015 : A small island in Southeast Asia . Image mention : NASA / Scott Kelly
August 9 , 2015 : The whitish Way in all its cold , gassy warped beauty . Image cite : NASA / Scott Kelly
August 10 , 2015 : The western United States at night with city glow ( yellow - Orange River ) and dissipate lightning in electric storm ( lily-white - blue ) . Image credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
August 12 , 2015 : ThePerseid shooting star showerseen from the International Space Station on a moonless Nox . Image credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
August 15 , 2015 : Aurora coating the major planet in glowing pinkish and dark-green . effigy credit rating : NASA / Scott Kelly
August 17 , 2015 : Snow on Kilimanjaro . Image credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
August 25 , 2015 : Scott Kelly in a zero - g selfie , juggling fresh fruits he ’d helped unload from theHTV5 cargo runto the space post . figure credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
August 27 , 2015 : “ Is it cyan , turquoise , drab - green , aqua or seafoam ? ” Image acknowledgment : NASA / Scott Kelly
August 28 , 2015 : imperial radiate Aurora on Night 154 of the Year in Space . Image credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
August 31 , 2015 : The human shock on Earth can still make fantastic art . range credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
September 3 , 2015 : “ Sometimes it ’s good when things get in your way . ” picture credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
September 4 , 2015 : Names do n’t necessitate to make sense : this very grim body of water is the Red Sea in Greek and the Green Space in Egyptian . Image credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
September 5 , 2015 : The Earth at night with the Moon , airglow , and city lights provide diffuse gleaming . epitome credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
September 6 , 2015 : Sediment shade rivers to a rich , mysterious Orange River . Image credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
September 8 , 2015 : “ Since we do n’t have much unripened up here , the green of this desert is even more likeable . ” effigy reference : NASA / Scott Kelly
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