Astronaut tweets stunning photos of NZ from space
- Publish date
- Tuesday, 10 Jan 2017, 9:29AM
Good morning beautiful New Zealand.
This was you, yesterday, from space.
As Kiwis wound down from another summer's day, astronaut Ignazio Magnani was pointing his camera down from 400 kilometres above the Earth.
The Italian was on board the International Space Station as it passed over New Zealand.
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🌏 Earth from Space
— Ignazio Magnani (@IgnazioMagnani) January 9, 2017
LIVE from Space Station https://t.co/NCttIU1KmD
🇳🇿 New Zealand@RealLucyLawless @WeatherWatchNZ @will_allen @UCNZ pic.twitter.com/tA5lCpr3Yx
He had earlier tweeted about the station's planned orbit over New Zealand.
"The @Space_Station is visible to the nakedeye at 10:24 pm
everywhere in NZ."
It's not the first time our land has caught Magnani's eye.
🇳🇿New Zealand from Space
— Ignazio Magnani (@IgnazioMagnani) January 8, 2017
🌏Canterbury Plains, Rakaia River
📷https://t.co/sCQ3EBZlmq
🇳🇿@Christchurch_NZ @rebuildchch @paulbrislen @AmyBowie pic.twitter.com/PIza9sSRZ1
A day earlier he tweeted an image of the Canterbury plains and its ribbons of braided rivers.
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