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A space sunrise taken by ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet on the International Space…

A space sunrise taken by ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet on the International Space Station earlier in February. Thomas commented: “Sunrises. We experience 16 sunrises every 24 hours on the International Space Station as it takes us 90 minutes to do a complete orbit of our planet flying at 28 800 km/h. Of course we don’t notice most of the sunrises as we are working inside, but every now and again I can take a picture.” See http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2017/02/Space_sunrise