{"id":631526,"date":"2026-06-10T17:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/631526\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T17:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:16:11","slug":"astronaut-shoots-breathtaking-aerial-photographs-of-two-of-europes-most-iconic-volcanoes-in-just-one-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/631526\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut shoots breathtaking aerial photographs of two of Europe’s most iconic volcanoes in just one minute!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Few people have seen the iconic Mt Vesuvius \u2013 famed for burying the Roman city of Pompeii in AD79 \u2013 and Mt Etna \u2013 an active stratovolcano on the island of Sicily \u2013 like French astronaut Sophie Adenot.<\/p>\n

From aboard the International Space Station (ISS), where she\u2019s currently 119 days into a 9-month stint, Adenot<\/a> has perhaps the most awe-inspiring views of the iconic peaks, which, fortunately for us, she recently photographed and shared with the world.<\/p>\n

On day 103 in space, during her 1,598th orbit of the Earth, the astronaut pressed the shutter of her Nikon Z9<\/a> while peering into the crater of the dormant Vesuvius, which, from space, appeared nothing more than a pimple. She captured Mt Etna less than a minute earlier, its snow-capped peak billowing smoke.<\/p>\n

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Mt Vesuvius surrounded by the sprawling city of Naples, Italy, seen from the International Space Station (Image credit: ESA\/NASA \u2013 S. Adenot)<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom orbit, volcanoes are some of the most beautiful natural sights,\u201d said Adenot in an ESA statement<\/a>. \u201cEtna caught me by surprise one morning as I opened the shutters. The whiteness of its slopes\u2026 and that elegant plume of smoke which is a gentle reminder that it\u2019s only lightly, very lightly, asleep.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adenot was working with a Nikon<\/a> Nikkor Z 400mm f\/2.8 TC VR S<\/a> telephoto lens, but snapped both images at a 560mm focal length, so she had switched in the in-built teleconverter to crop in that bit closer. All of the frame in both images is sharply in focus and that\u2019s thanks to an f\/14 aperture, with plenty of sunlight and an ISO 500 used for correct exposure.<\/p>\n

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ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronauts\u00a0Jack Hathaway,\u00a0Jessica Meir and Chris Williams take a moment to capture the occasion as they first open the Cygnus NG\u201124 cargo spacecraft after its installation on the International Space Station (Image credit: Roscosmos\/ A. Fedyaev)<\/p>\n

This is Adenot\u2019s first mission to space and she\u2019s wasted no time in documenting the experience on camera.<\/p>\n

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Part of the ESA \u03b5psilon mission<\/a> which blasted off in the SpaceX Dragon capsule, she\u2019s captured plenty of candid portraits of her teammates NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, and cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, along with scenes of her native France.<\/p>\n

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