The Deriba Lakes in Sudan
Photo taken from the Space Station on 28 April 2021, by ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet.
Thomas Pesquet took off on November 17, 2016 to the International Space Station as part of the ESA Proxima mission, he returned to Earth on June 2, 2017, after a six-month mission.
In 2021, Thomas Pesquet returned to the International Space Station for a second mission named "Alpha", based on the Alpha Centauri star, located in the same system as Proxima. Thomas was the first European to leave Earth aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon, which took off from Florida, USA, on April 23, 2021 for a mission lasting more than 6 months.
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