Texas from Outer Space (Photo : Twitter/StationCDRKelly)
Astronaut Scott Kelly got some pretty shots of a few cities of Texas from outer space. Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston were visible in a single shot of photo he took while in space.
Kelly is 250 miles away from Earth at the International Space Station when he took the photos. From Earth, the stars are bright and big from up above. From space, it is the city lights that form the state which was seen by the astronaut.
The three big cities of the state glowed with its bright lights which was seen from the space station with even the I-35 corridor between Austin and San Antonio shows and is visible from space.
Kelly together with Russian Mikhail Kornienko, are the two astronauts that were on board to complete the longest space mission as of today, the one-year in orbit mission, Chron reported.
The mission's objectives were to observe the two astronauts' long-term reactions to extraterrestrial or space habitat conditions to be able to develop future plans for manned missions to deeper parts of the solar system.
The mission's concerns are the astronauts' health condition while out in space in a zero gravity environment, their emotional health while in a very long isolated state, and the mental health condition of both astronauts as they keep themselves entertained and fight boredom, according to Topix.
Today both astronauts marks ten days in space and Kelly is trying to bridge himself from the multi-hundred mile gap to the world on Earth via Twitter from space.
