The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently shared a stunning composite image of the seven different frames of the International Space Station (ISS) transiting the Sun. ISS can be seen as tiny dots around the Sun as it moves past it at roughly five miles per second near Nellysford, Virginia.
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The image has been shared on the NASA official Instagram account and has gathered over 980,000 likes and 2,400 likes so far. The caption for the image states, “Transit: when one object crosses in front of another in space. 🌎 🛰️ 🌞 Here, the International Space Station (@ISS) is seen in silhouette as it transits the Sun at roughly five miles per second”.
It further explains that “at the time of the transit, Shane Kimbrough and astronaut Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_Astro) were working outside the station on a spacewalk that lasted a total of 6 hours and 45 minutes. The duo successfully installed and deployed a new roll-out solar array to augment the station's power supply”. Check it out:
Talking about Thomas Pesquet, the French Astronaut was selected as an ESA astronaut back in 2009. He then completed his basic training in 2010. Pesquet worked as a Eurocom where he was involved in communication with astronauts during spaceflights from the mission control centre and was also in charge of future projects at the European Astronaut Centre.
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Pesquet recently also captured a stunning image of the Suez Canal that left netizens completely mesmerized! The image was captured by Pesquet from the International Space Station (ISS) which he created using 100 images of the Suez Canal. Pesquet is regularly posting beautiful images of our Earth and other celestial bodies in the universe on his official Instagram and Twitter account “thom_astro”.
