These three points of light and swash of color amid darkness may appear to be abstract art, but they are actually quite familiar planetary bodies.
This image posted on Twitter last month by Commander Scott Kelly aboard the International Space Station shows the Earth, Moon, Venus and Jupiter in near alignment from curve to brightest point.
Day 114. #Moon #Venus #Jupiter...#Earth Good night from @space_station! #YearInSpace pic.twitter.com/GsOxOKt34S
— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) July 19, 2015
Scott Kelly is part of NASA’s One-Year Mission, a research project to study the mental and physical effects of long-term spaceflight. Starting from March this year, the differences that a year in space has on the body compared with a year on Earth will be examined between Kelly and his identical twin brother, Mark, by performing various physiological experiments on the siblings.
[H/T: /r/SpaceFlightPorn]
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