The astronauts on the ISS sent their first tweet from space just a short time ago. Now they’ve upped their game, using Twitpic to send us breathtaking shots of significant locations all around the world.
https://gizmodo.com/iss-astronauts-get-ultimate-wireless-network-send-firs-5454656
That picture up top? Mount Fuji, in Japan. These pictures here? See if you can guess:
The astronauts are encouraged to photograph and tweet anything that strikes them as interesting, and I’d say Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi is off to a great start. There are plenty more images of our magnificent orb already posted at his Twitpic account—including a look at Port au Prince just a few weeks after the earthquake—and it looks like he’s going to continue updating regularly.
Pictured in gallery: Tokyo, Hawaii, Mount Kilimanjaro, Golden Gate Bridge [Twitpic via Mashable]
