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Keywords: ISS, international space station, Earth
![Земля и Млечный Путь из космоса](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/11/07/0001347670/iss044e045565a.preview.jpg)
7.11.2015
Since November 2000, people have been living continuously on the International Space Station. To celebrate humanity's 15th anniversary off planet Earth, consider this snapshot from space of our galaxy and our home world posing together beyond the orbital outpost.
![Возвращение на рассвете](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/03/14/0001333725/expedition42descent.preview.jpg)
13.03.2015
Thursday, shortly after local sunrise over central Asia, this Soyuz spacecraft floated over a sea of golden clouds during its descent by parachute through planet Earth's dense atmosphere. On board were Expedition 42 commander Barry Wilmore of NASA and Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos).
![МКС и красочная Луна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/07/31/0001339326/STACKED-COLOUR-ISS-ODonnell1024.preview.jpg)
31.07.2015
Tonight's Full Moon, the second Full Moon in July, could be called a blue moon according to modern folklore. But this sharp and detailed mosaic, recorded with telescope and digital camera just before July's first Full Moon, actually does show a colorful lunar surface.
![Космический челнок и космическая станция](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/09/01/0001320687/shuttleiss_nasa_960.preview.jpg)
31.08.2014
How was this picture taken? Usually, pictures of the shuttle, taken from space, are snapped from the space station. Commonly, pictures of the space station are snapped from the shuttle. How, then, can there be a picture of both the shuttle and the station together, taken from space?
![Часовые Арктики](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/04/13/0001335286/snowtrees_bonfadini_960.preview.jpg)
12.04.2015
Who guards the north? Judging from the above photograph, possibly giant trees covered in snow and ice. The featured picture was taken a few winters ago in Finnish Lapland where weather can include sub-freezing temperatures and driving snow.
![Полная Земля, полная Луна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/08/08/0001339958/epicearthmoonstill1024.preview.jpg)
7.08.2015
The Moon was new on July 16. Its familiar nearside facing the surface of planet Earth was in shadow. But on that date a million miles away, the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) captured this view of an apparently Full Moon crossing in front of a Full Earth.
![Четыре миллиарда лет до нашей эры: разбитая Земля](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/08/07/0001318751/HadeanEarth_swri_960.preview.jpg)
5.08.2014
No place on Earth was safe. Four billion years ago, during the Hadean eon, our Solar System was a dangerous shooting gallery of large and dangerous rocks and ice chunks. Recent examination of lunar...
![Космическая станция над лунным терминатором](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/04/27/0001336251/SpaceStationTerminator_Caxete_960.preview.jpg)
27.04.2015
What's that in front of the Moon? It's the International Space Station. Using precise timing, the Earth-orbiting space platform was photographed in front of a partially lit Moon last year. The featured image was taken from Madrid, Spain with an exposure time of only 1/1000 of a second.
![Космическая станция захватывает корабль Дракон](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/06/02/0001313651/dragoncapture_nasa_960.preview.jpg)
2.06.2014
The space station has caught a dragon. Specifically, in mid-April, the International Space Station captured the unmanned SpaceX Dragon capsule sent to resupply the orbiting outpost. Pictured above, the station's Canadarm2 had just grabbed the commercial spaceship.
![Следы звёзд на утреннем небе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/07/28/0001268275/20120726PlanetShow2Seip_900.preview.jpg)
28.07.2012
Brilliant Venus and bright Jupiter still rise together before dawn. The peaceful waters by a small lakeside house near Stuttgart, Germany reflect their graceful arcing trails in this composited series of exposures, recorded on the morning of July 26.
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