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Aurora for Doug
On 20 June, just a few days after having arrived aboard the International Space Station, Douglas Wheelock (nicknamed Doug) was able to admire and photograph this superb aurora borealis above the South Pole. The American astronaut regularly posts his photographs on his twitter account just like his Japanese colleague Soichi Noguchi did.
Credit: NASA

Douglas Wheelock on Twitter

Portfolio of Soichi Noguchi’s photographs

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