[:ja]ドナルド・ペティ宇宙飛行士がISSに搭乗した際に撮影した画像や動画の数々をまとめたクリップ「宇宙から（From Above）」です。
ペティ氏は化学の専門家で、2002年から2003年にかけて、第6次長期滞在でミッションスペシャリストとしてISSに滞在し、2回の宇宙遊泳を行いました。空いた時間には、”Saturday Morning Science”と呼んでいた一連の講義で、無重力空間で液体はどのように振舞うか等の実験をデモンストレーションしました。
また、同氏はプロのカメラマンですが、ペティはステーションのスペアの部品を使って、地球の表面に対するISSの動きを補正し、軌道上から夜の街の明かりをより高精度で撮影するためのヘイグ式架台を作りました。動画にもそのくだりが述べられています。
同氏のお気に入りは、オーロラや人間活動が顕著な都市の灯などが見える、夜の地球だそうです。
参考文献： From Above – Astronaut Photography with Don Pettit
ウェブ地球儀で地球俯瞰画像を見る： LiVEARTH
[Earthview Wonders][Video] No.428: From Above
This is Astronaut Donald Pettit’s stunning photo and movie clip “From Above”.
Donald Roy Pettit is an American chemical engineer and a NASA astronaut who got onboard ISS in 2002/2003 as a mission specialist. Pettit is also a professional photographer and during Expedition 6 in 2002/2003, Pettit used spare parts found throughout the Station to construct a barn door tracker; the device compensates for the movement of the ISS relative to the Earth’s surface, permitting sharper high resolution images of city lights at night from the orbiting space station.
Pettit comments he is favorite subject is the Earth at night, as follows.
“Aurora is just amazingly beautiful. It’s this glowing upper part of the atmosphere that crawls around like amoebas in the sky,”
“And cities at night. The way human beings sprinkle their light bulbs around is a fascinating statement on how we as human beings define our urban areas.”
“There’s a lot of things you can learn about human beings in the way that they sprinkle their lights out at night.”
Reference: From Above – Astronaut Photography with Don Pettit
See earthview photo gallery with web-globe: LiVEARTH[:en][Earthview Wonders][Video] No.428: From Above
This is Astronaut Donald Pettit’s stunning photo and movie clip “From Above”.
Donald Roy Pettit is an American chemical engineer and a NASA astronaut who got onboard ISS in 2002/2003 as a mission specialist. Pettit is also a professional photographer and during Expedition 6 in 2002/2003, Pettit used spare parts found throughout the Station to construct a barn door tracker; the device compensates for the movement of the ISS relative to the Earth’s surface, permitting sharper high resolution images of city lights at night from the orbiting space station.
Pettit comments he is favorite subject is the Earth at night, as follows.
“Aurora is just amazingly beautiful. It’s this glowing upper part of the atmosphere that crawls around like amoebas in the sky,”
“And cities at night. The way human beings sprinkle their light bulbs around is a fascinating statement on how we as human beings define our urban areas.”
“There’s a lot of things you can learn about human beings in the way that they sprinkle their lights out at night.”
Reference: From Above – Astronaut Photography with Don Pettit
See earthview photo gallery with web-globe: LiVEARTH[:]