
Astronaut Ron Garan, known on Twitter as @Astro_Ron, has been sharing his unique view with tens of thousands of space fans.
Garan has been photographing the Earth, the space shuttle Atlantis and his team's spacewalks from his home on board the International Space Station (ISS), where he currently resides as a member of Expedition 27.
In 2009, Nasa placed an order for 11 D3S digital SLR cameras with F-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED lenses to be used for photographic documentation in space, according to Nikon. Nasa has reportedly used the company's cameras since the early 1970s, and, to date, has taken more than 700,000 photographs using Nikon equipment.
Astro_Ron took this image of the Earth and the moon on 24 June.
Photo credit: Nasa/@Astro_Ron








