Germany & Central Europe, seen from the International Space Station

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Germany & Central Europe, seen from the International Space Station

11:43 am 7 August 2018

Just had a chance to take my first photos of dried-out Central Europe and Germany since a few weeks, and was shocked. What should have been green, is now all brown. Never seen it like this before. #Horizons pic.twitter.com/o2XoddPdrM
— Alexander Gerst (@Astro_Alex) August 6, 2018

Tweet by the current commander of the ISS, German Alexander Gerst.

I'd been planning to shut up about the weather, but this just came too pat ... Will finally be shutting up now, though.