Astronaut Tweets Beautiful Earth Images From Space

Courtesy Mashable!  Fri, 02/05/2010 - 00:02

One of the astronauts currently in residence on the International Space Station is using Twitpic to send some spectacular imagery of our home planet back down to us Earthlings (that’s Mt.

Kilimanjaro
as seen from space at right).

It’s the next logical step now that the first real-time tweet from space milestone has been passed.

Flight engineer Soichi Noguchi is now sending back images via his Twitpic account as the ISS orbits...


 

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