Photographs: Col. Chris Hadfield/Handout/Reuters
Rediff.com presents some spectacular photographs shot by Col. Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency, who is photographing the Earth from the International Space Station.
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Photographs: Col. Chris Hadfield/Handout/Reuters
The Nile and the Sinai Peninsula.
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Photographs: Col. Chris Hadfield/Handout/Reuters
The islands of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates
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Photographs: Col. Chris Hadfield/Handout/Reuters
Latakia (R) and Tartus, two coastal towns in Syria
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Photographs: Col. Chris Hadfield/Handout/Reuters
Baghdad, capital and largest city of Iraq
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Photographs: Col. Chris Hadfield/Handout/Reuters
The iconic Manicouagan meteor crater in Quebe. The crater is one of the oldest known impact craters on Earth, still visible from space
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Photographs: Col. Chris Hadfield/Handout/Reuters
A fault line in South Africa visible from orbit
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Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia
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Photographs: Col. Chris Hadfield/Handout/Reuters
Italy's Mount Etna streaming ash after it erupted
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Photographs: Col. Chris Hadfield/Handout/Reuters
Bushfires in Australia
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Photographs: Col. Chris Hadfield/Handout/Reuters
Hamilton, at the tip of Lake Ontario, Canada. The steel town with the Niagara Escarpment just visible from space.
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Photographs: Col. Chris Hadfield/Handout/Reuters
The Canadarm2 will be used to capture Space X's Dragon.
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Photographs: Col. Chris Hadfield/Handout/Reuters
Taking advantage of a weightless environment onboard the Earth-orbiting International Space Station, Expedition 34 Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency juggles some tomatoes.
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Photographs: Col. Chris Hadfield/Handout/Reuters
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield, Expedition 34 flight engineer, watches a water bubble float freely between him and the camera, showing his image refracted, in the Unity node of the International Space Station.
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