An astronaut at the International Space Station has apparently been granted permission to tweet some of his photos from outer space, and man oh man are they glorious. This one is of Mt. Kilimanjaro, in all her looming glory. It’s pretty cool how mountains can look more like footprints from so high above.

Meanwhile, Flight engineer Soichi Noguchi is now sending back images via his Twitpic account as the ISS orbits the Earth, and astronaut Jose Hernandez, who flew on the Shuttle Discovery mission STS-128, has also posted to Twitpic from his mission as well.

We lowly earthlings are lucky after all.

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