Soichi Noguchi, Astronaut, Tweets Earth Images From Space

by Karan Goel

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.

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

Check out a selection of some of the pics below, and you can find more at Astro_Soichi’s Twitpic. Astronaut Jose Hernandez, who flew on the Shuttle Discovery mission STS-128, has also posted some imagery from his mission to Twitpic as well.

Mount Fuji, Japan. 3,776m. The highest mountain in Japan.

Port-Au-Prince, as of Feb 3. Three weeks after the earthquake.

Maldives Islands, Indian Ocean.