Un astronauta a bordo...oh,
wait.
We just confused ourselves with @nasa_es,
our Spanish-language counterpart (¡hola!).
Let’s start over.

An astronaut aboard the @iss took this photograph with a short lens camera,
capturing almost all of Mexico,
from its mountain ranges to its long coastlines.⁣
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The Pacific Ocean is visible on the left side of the image and on the right,
the Gulf of Mexico.
At bottom,
you can see a tiny bit of a gold-colored solar array belonging to Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo spacecraft,
which delivered supplies to the space station in February and will undock on Monday.
⁣⁣To view the full-image,
visit nasa.gov/Instagram.
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Image Credit:
NASA⁣⁣
⁣ #mexico #cielitolindo #cdmx #fisheye #spacestation #nasa ⁣⁣

And the land rinsed off its paintbrush into the sea
The Suwannee River in Georgia is known as a “blackwater river”
due to its dark-brown waters laden with organic material.
Its ink-like waters act like a tracer as it pours into the Gulf of Mexico,
revealing where the river water mixes with the sea.

Credit:
NASA Earth Observatory/
Dr.
Alice Alonso #nasa #earth #space #satellite #rivers #ocean

🌀
Zone out for a second 🌀

This hypnotic video is actually a global color map of Mercury's surface,
created by mosaicking thousands of sets of images obtained by the MESSENGER spacecraft's Wide Angle Camera.

The vibrant colors are related to the variations in how much of the Sun's energy its surface reflects at specific wavelengths,
a concept called spectral reflectance.

Credit:
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington #nasa #space #Mercury #solarsystem #spaceexploration