Updated
Updated · Space.com · Jun 8
Sophie Adenot Captures Mount Vesuvius From ISS on Day 103 of Crew-12 Mission
Updated
Updated · Space.com · Jun 8

Sophie Adenot Captures Mount Vesuvius From ISS on Day 103 of Crew-12 Mission

2 articles · Updated · Space.com · Jun 8

Summary

  • Sophie Adenot shared a new ISS photo of Mount Vesuvius, taken on Day 103 of Crew-12 as the station passed over Naples.
  • Less than a minute after spotting Mount Etna, the French ESA astronaut photographed Vesuvius, highlighting its vast crater, summit path and the city spread around it.
  • Crew-12 — Adenot, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, and cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev — arrived in February for a six-month stay aboard the station.
  • The image came days before the crew briefly sheltered in their Dragon capsule on June 5 during a spacewalk to address a leak on the ISS.

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