Another shows Paolo hovering in mid air as he preps his own suit ready to
venture outside the space station and greet new incumbents.
While Paolo can be seen waking up in his stand up bed on Christmas day in
another – all with his family’s gift-wrapped present hovering in front of
him.
An image of crew member Cady Coleman shows her rocking a barmy hairstyle as
the weightless conditions wreak havoc with her hair as she eats a snack.
Paolo, who now has over 46,000 followers on Twitter, said: “I wish that
everybody could have a possibility of being up here, but as this is not
possible so far, I’m happy to provide these views and feelings to people.
“Each day I receive between 200-500 tweets about my pictures and they are
all extremely interesting.”
The Italian has been charged with carrying out an intensive program of
experiments ranging from monitoring radiation to measurements that could
improve oil recovery in petroleum reservoirs.
But in his spare time he has taken a stunning series of images – including the
Grand Canyon, a swollen Mississippi river and the UK – as well as the
world’s first outerspace 3D pictures.
Paolo said: “When I have free time, even only 5 minutes, I just hover in
the international space station looking down out of one of the seven
windows.
“Earth is a beautiful subject and one of the most magnificent models that
a photographer can have.”
Paolo is set to return to the relative normality of Earth alongside his
colleges later this week.
The 3D anaglyph images are best viewed with red/cyan glasses.
Article source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8530335/Worlds-first-3D-pictures-from-outer-space.html