Don Pettit has been at it once more. Not content material with dazzling earthlings with unbelievable photographs captured from his present residence aboard the Worldwide Area Station (ISS), the NASA astronaut has now taken us behind the digicam to point out you the good lens change you’ve ever seen.
Again on terra firma the place gravity lives, altering a lens can generally be a cumbersome affair that leaves you wishing you had two pairs of palms as an alternative of 1.
However up in orbit, grasp photographer Pettit has discovered a option to benefit from the house station’s microgravity situations in terms of swapping digicam lenses. In a video (under) shared on X, we see the NASA astronaut with a floating digicam that has a lens hooked up, alongside a second lens, which can also be floating.
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First, Pettit removes the lens from the digicam, after which leaves the lens floating in place within the microgravity atmosphere. He then removes the rear lens cap from the opposite lens earlier than attaching it to the digicam physique, which he then leaves floating in entrance of him. Lastly, Pettit grabs the primary lens and places the rear lens cap on, after which returns it to its floating place. Job performed!
change a digicam lens…… pic.twitter.com/JUujYAYSiI
— Don Pettit (@astro_Pettit) January 18, 2025
Moreover finishing up work on varied experiments throughout his six-month keep aboard the ISS, Pettit has additionally been sharing some very good pictures and photographs of Earth and past.
His most up-to-date effort provided an uncommon view of Blue Origin’s current launch of the New Glenn rocket because it blasted to house for the primary time.
In one other submit (under) that he shared on Monday, Pettit revealed how he arrange a number of cameras contained in the station’s Cupola, a seven-window module that provides panoramic views of Earth and past.
“To {photograph} New Glenn, I arrange three cameras with extensive angle lens within the Cupola, figuring one would catch its exo-atmospheric trajectory,” Pettit mentioned within the submit.
To {photograph} New Glenn, I arrange three cameras with extensive angle lens within the Cupola, figuring one would catch its exo-atmospheric trajectory. pic.twitter.com/412gvfnW84
— Don Pettit (@astro_Pettit) January 19, 2025
