ESA astronaut takes some breathtaking photos of our planet

German Astronaut Alexander Gerst, while on a collaborative European Space Agency’s Blue Dot mission has taken some enthralling pictures of our planetary home.

And what’s more intriguing is that the European Space Agency has released the six minute time lapse video of these 12,500 photos that depicts a period of six months.

Gerst was aboard the International Space Station ISS during the Blue Dot mission that started from May and ended in November this year.

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