Astronaut Scott Kelly has broken the record for spending more continuous time in space than any other NASA astronaut — 340 days in orbit. And on Tuesday, March 1, he's scheduled to return to planet Earth.
When he comes home, Kelly will have circled the globe 5,440 times, for a total distance of 143,846,525 miles, according to the New York Times.
That's a lot of time to take amazing photos.
And thanks to the magic of the Internet, he's been documenting the whole thing on Instagram for his 844,000 followers.
The photos are so incredible it would be impossible to rank them. These are the ones that perfectly capture his artistic eye.
This is just one of the 10,944 sunrises and sunsets Kelly had the chance to see in space.
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The NASA astronaut took countless shots of vibrant landscapes, like this one over Africa.
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The flowers in this Valentine's bouquet are from one of the 400 experiments Kelly worked on.
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