See other posts from January 2013

Birth of a New Moon

Posted By Emily Lakdawalla

2012/07/05 12:01 CDT

Topics: pretty pictures, human spaceflight, International Space Station, Earth

It's such a wonderful thing that astronauts like Don Pettit can tweet photos like these from space.

NASA / Don Pettit

Birth of a New Moon

Photo by astronaut Don Pettit on Space Station Expedition 31, shortly before his return to Earth, taken on June 30, 2012.