Roscosmos (or Roskosmos) is the Russian equivalent of NASA. As many of you will have seen, the NASA guys on the International Space Station (ISS) have recently been bang on the social media stuff and been busily beaming back some gems. As a lovely example here’s a link to a video of ISS captain Chris Hadfield demonstrating how to clean your teeth in space.
Now it’s the turn of the Russian guys. The Roscosmos guys have set up an Instagram account. Here’s some selected shots…
First up here’s the aurora australis (the aurora borealis‘ more southerly neighbour)…
… and here’s the standard aurora looking just as fine…
Brazil…
Rocket launch in Turkey…
The white streak is a shooting star…
ISS…
Russia’s greatest wilderness – Kamchatka…
Mount Kilimanjaro…
Lake Baikal… the freshwater lake with greatest volume in the world, containing around 20% of the world’s entire unfrozen surface fresh water. It’s also the deepest, clearest and oldest lake in the world. And nippy…
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