Astronaut's View of the Rocky Mountains from Space Is Just Amazing

European Area Company astronaut Thomas Pesquet captured this picture of the Rocky Mountains from the Worldwide Area Station on Dec. 25, 2016.

Credit score: ESA/NASA

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet simply took "Rocky Mountain Excessive" to a complete new degree.

The European Area Company astronaut took this unimaginable picture of the Rocky Mountains from 250 miles (400 kilometers) above the Earth at his put up aboard the Worldwide Area Station.

With snow-capped peaks as tall as 2.7 miles (four.four km), the huge North American mountain vary slices straight by way of a blanket of clouds. "The Rocky Mountains are a step too excessive – even for the clouds to cross," Pesquet tweeted concerning the picture. [See More of Thomas Pesquet's Amazing Space Photos]

The Rocky mountains are a step too excessive – even for the clouds to cross https://t.co/1SAD0nPZRj #Proxima pic.twitter.com/vbOCNevkxQ

— Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro) January 9, 2017

These low- to midlevel clouds seem like of the stratus selection, forming clean and comparatively featureless sheets of dense cloud protection at altitudes that do not fairly match the peak of the mountain vary. Low-level stratus clouds type beneath altitudes of 1.2 miles (2 km), whereas midlevel altostratus clouds can type at as much as three.eight miles (6 km) above the Earth, in keeping with the Nationwide Climate Service.

Pesquet, a first-time house flier who arrived on the house station in November, appears to have discovered a brand new pastime in house images, taking pictures of Earth from house and sharing them on social media nearly day by day.

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