Russian cosmonaut Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, who is on board the International Space Station, shared a series of pictures of our planet. Each frame is a unique view of Earth from a height of about 400 kilometers, Roscosmos reports.
Bahamas. The cosmonaut's lens captured picturesque views of atolls and turquoise lagoons — some of the most recognizable places on the planet from space.
Greenland. The snowy expanses of the largest island on Earth open from orbit as an endless ice field with bizarre patterns of cracks and fjords.
Mauritius. A volcanic island in the Indian Ocean, surrounded by coral reefs, appeared in the picture in all its tropical beauty.
Patagonian glaciers. The harsh ice masses in the south of South America — one of the fastest melting glaciers on the planet — look from above like giant blue rivers sliding down from the mountains.
On March 22, the Soyuz-2.1a rocket with the Progress MS-33 cargo ship successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It delivered more than 2.5 tons of cargo to the ISS: fuel, water, food, scientific equipment and equipment for experiments. The ship has already docked to the station. The crew plans to go into outer space again to test the nanopowder coating of the illuminators. Meanwhile, Roscosmos confirmed that the gradual deorbiting of the ISS will begin in 2028, and the station will be finally flooded in 2030.
