Astronaut Don Pettit doesn’t have the name recognition of Ansel Adams, but his work literally transcends cultures and borders around the globe. Pettit is the photographer behind the amazing time-lapses coming from the ISS, and here he is with all 10 of his cameras.
See those explosions of light against the backdrop of our ever-spinning Earth? They are meteors burning through our planet’s mesosphere, captured from the International Space Station in a time-lapse made of 316 still frames by astronaut Don Pettit.