Breathtaking: Astronaut captures huge sand storm over Bahrain from ISS; salutes nature's forces

Agencies | Manama The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com It is a completely different experience to be able to view the Earth from the International Space Station. French astronaut Thomas Pesquet - on a second trip to ISS - tweeted breathtakingly beautiful pictures of Mother Earth. These pictures (also shared on his Flickr feed) are a bird's eye view of a mammoth sand storm that swept across parts of Middle East Asia (Bahrain). Check the Flickr feed and tweet handle of French astronaut Thomas Gautier Pesquet - a French aerospace engineer, pilot, and European Space Agency astronaut - currently stationed at the International Space Station (ISS). KEY HIGHLIGHTS Look at the pictures that ISS astronaut Thomas Pesquet posts on his Twitter handle. The latest one he has posted is about the marvellous strength on Mother Nature. Thomas Pesquet posts several poignant pieces and photos from his location in orbit at 408 km above Earth. It is a completely different experience to be able to view the Earth from the International Space Station. French astronaut Thomas Pesquet - on a second trip to ISS - tweeted breathtakingly beautiful pictures of Mother Earth. These pictures (also shared on his Flickr feed) are a bird's eye view of a mammoth sand storm that swept across parts of Middle East Asia (Bahrain). Check the Flickr feed and tweet handle of French astronaut Thomas Gautier Pesquet - a French aerospace engineer, pilot, and European Space Agency astronaut - currently stationed at the International Space Station (ISS). "A sandstorm! I had never seen one from space, this one looked massive… I wonder how many tonnes of sand just flew over dozens or hundreds of kilometres. Mother nature has some strength. #MissionAlpha https://flic.kr/p/2m8cWX4," Pesquet writes on his Twitter post.

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