Astronaut Don Pettit’s Marvelous Photos From Space

The NY Times has a nice feature on NASA astronaut Don Pettit’s photography from his latest stay in space, a 220-day mission aboard the ISS.

Now, you know I like a good astronomical image (like the one above of an ISS sunrise), but the thing that really caught my eye was the video of Pettit’s experiment involving charged water droplets and a teflon needle:

I could watch that allllll day long.

More Pettit: Swirling Green Aurora Captured From the ISS.

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Swirling Green Aurora Captured From the ISS

I don’t have a whole lot to say about this video except wow. Wow wow. It’s almost inconceivable that we live in a world of sights like this. Feels like science fiction but is actually real. Captured by NASA astronaut Don Pettit aboard the ISS.

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Zero gravity yo-yo tricks

It turns out that yo-yos work pretty well in space. Astronaut Don Pettit demontrates from the International Space Station.

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