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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut Robert Louis ‘Bob’ Behnken, who was also a former Colonel with the US Air Force, had a special something for his Twitter followers yesterday.
“First moments of sunrise from @Space_Station,” wrote Behnken on the microblogging platform.
Behnken has been sharing photos of the Moon, taken from space. These photos of the sunrise, taken from the International Space Station (ISS), are extraordinarily sharp.
Since the ISS revolves around the earth every 90 minutes, astronauts on board witness 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets every day.
The photos, which were shared on Twitter, have been liked almost 60,000 times.
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