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In 2003, when the International Space Station had only been occupied for three years, NASA astronaut Donald Pettit took a gorgeous picture of the Earth's atmosphere, with countless stars frozen in the background.earlier this week, the same photo "cannot be taken anymore" — and it's not because of global warming making irreversible changes to our planet or camera tech that no longer exists.
"Essentially, the station itself was the tracking mechanism thus for a camera mounted to Space Station, a time exposure yielded stars as pinpoints," Pettit explained in his post. As of this year, he's the oldest active NASA astronaut and is scheduled to visit the station for a third time on board a Soyuz capsule alongside two Russian cosmonauts in September.
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