There's been a lot of interest in social networking of late, especially because of the emergence of Twitter as a micro-blogging tool. I'm a fan of Twitter, but this is, so far, the coolest use I've seen yet for Twitter, and the Twitter-friendly image sharing service Twitpic. We've been able to follow, sort of, the Mars Orbiter and robots, and various announcements from JPL and NASA, which were all fabulous (and nominated for a Shorty award), but this, this is even better.
International Space Station Flight engineer Soichi Noguchi is now sending back images via his Twitpic account as the ISS orbits the Earth. Totally cool, amazing, fabulous images. You can follow Soichi Noguchi's Twitter stream in English, with lots more in Japanese. The pictures are stunning. The Twitpic page is here. Based on what I can find out (the best pages in terms of information are in Japanese, understandably) Soichi is using his cell phone to take the pictures. I'm so very very amazed and stunned and delighted that this works at all, and even more so by our beautiful planet.
Thanks Soichi Noguchi, thank you very very much. Domo arigato, Nogouchi-san.
Pico De Orizaba,the highest mountain in Mexico