From the ISS

In the direction of photos of food, cats, dogs, pumped up priests, celebrities and millions of selfies. We found the best Instagram, and this is Roscosmos Instagram.

Here we go!

(Total 41 photos)

1. Removal of the Proton-M launch vehicle with the Glonass-M spacecraft unit to the launch complex at pl. 81 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

2. Preparations for the launch of the transport manned spacecraft Soyuz TMA-12M. 03/26/2014.

3. On March 26, 2014 at 01:17 a.m., a space rocket with a transport manned spacecraft was launched.

4. Footage of the launch of a space rocket with a transport manned spacecraft on March 26, 2014.

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7. Space "truck" in flight.

8. Rapprochement of an automatic transport spacecraft with the ISS.

Amazing shots, right?

9. Astronaut in outer space.

10. Moon.

11. “The sun and the moon rise almost at the same time ... the moon is a little earlier, and this is how the sun illuminates it.” Quote and photo: Sergei Ryazansky.

12. “Believe me, for the human eye there is no sweeter and more beautiful picture than our Planet. After all, it is our home!” - Cosmonaut, Hero of Russia Fyodor Yurchikhin.

13. Southern aurora.

14. Aurora.

15. Let's flip the previous photo... Fascinating.

16. “Friends, make a wish if you see a shooting star! The meteor is not so easy to see against the background of our beautiful planet.

17. “The passage of Venus across the solar disk is a phenomenon that occurs once in a century. The next such passage will be in 2117,” cosmonaut Gennady Padalka.

Now let's look at the Earth.

18. Lake Baikal is the deepest lake on the planet and the largest natural reservoir of fresh water.

19. Himalayas, view from the ISS. The Himalayas are recognized as the highest mountain system in the world, there are 109 peaks in the chain, most of which reach a height of 7300 m above sea level.

20. Alps. Allalin Glacier from the height of the ISS.

21. From the blog of Fyodor Yurchikhin: “Elbrus… How can this handsome man not attract attention and give rise to a dream - to climb it.”

22. Kilimanjaro. View from the ISS.

23. Mountain lakes of Chile, surrounded by incredibly shaped glaciers.

24. Sandstorm in Mexico.

25. Kamchatka. View from the ISS.

26. Even the famous bridges of Vladivostok are visible from the ISS. These are the two largest cable-stayed bridges in Russia. The total length of the Russian bridge is almost 1900 meters, the Golden one is about 1400 meters. The Russian bridge is listed in the Guinness Book of Records, among all cable-stayed bridges in the world it has the longest span - 1104 meters.

27. Dubai, Persian Gulf, Palm Jumeirah artificial island. Part of the Palm Islands. The Palm Islands were created in order to increase the flow of tourists. Each island is shaped like a palm tree. The islands add about 500 kilometers to Dubai's beaches. Photo: A. Shkaplerov., A. Ivanishin.

28. Typhoon Haikui. Satellite image "Electro-L". Thanks to early detection, about 2 million people were evacuated without being injured.

29. Richat structure (Guell-er-Rishat), Sahara. Anatoly Ivanishin: “The Rishat structure served as a guide for astronauts in orbit for quite a long time, as it represented a clearly visible object in a vast expanse of unremarkable desert.” Photo by Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin.

30. Brazil. Photo by Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin.

31. Grand Canyon and clouds. Photo by Andrey Borisenko.

32. “Antarctica was full of life! Flocks of birds rang in the air, seals sunbathed on the shores, not paying attention to penguins busily scurrying back and forth,” Vladimir Sanin wrote in his book “Newbie in Antarctica”. And today we will look at Antarctica together with the Russian crew of the International Space Station.

33. View from the ISS on the deepest lake in Mongolia - Khubsugul. It contains about 2% of the world's fresh water. Khubsugul is one of the seventeen oldest lakes in the world, presumably its age is 5 million years.

34. Patagonia is an endless series of glaciers, fjords, lakes, forests, frozen ground and the peaks of the Andes. This is what Patagonia looks like from the ISS.

35. The amazing nature of Bolivia from the height of the ISS.

36. Photo: Russian crew of the ISS.

37. The Aral Sea wishes you a good day. Photo from the ISS.

38. View of a million. Photo: RS ISS.

In space it's good, but at home it's better.

39. Landing of the descent vehicle of a transport manned spacecraft.

40. “The descent as a whole usually takes about three hours, and it is a rather difficult path, ending with a hard landing hit, which is called a soft landing,” Hero of the Russian Federation, Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation Yuri Baturin.

And finally:

41. Sunset at Baikonur.