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🌎🌊 Sea your planet.⁣ ⁣ Astronaut Shane Kimbrough (Astro_Kimbrough) took this photo of Earth from the windows of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour, which is currently docked to the International Space Station (iss).⁣ ⁣ Seen here is the Baja Peninsula, the Sea of California, and western portions of Mexico. To the left of the frame, you can also see the Canadian-built Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, also known as Dextre. Dextre is the CanadianSpaceAgency's robotic arm that performs routine maintenance on the iss, sometimes aiding astronauts with hard-to-reach tasks during excursions outside the space station, and overall reducing the need for spacewalks.⁣ ⁣ You can also marvel at the fragile, blue layer of atmosphere that protects our planet’s lands and oceans. Tomorrow, June 8, is #WorldOceansDay, and we’ll be sharing info on our social media accounts on how we study these sources of life. As our planet’s climate continues to change, we want to understand how one of our biggest e...

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