Venus , you look dissimilar even from here . Did you gain an orbiter since last time we saw you ?
Venus is that upstage , bright sparkle in the Nox sky over Earth . No matter how firmly you squint , you ’re not going to see Venus ’s new climate observing spacecraft , Akatsuki – but it ’s there ! Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui snapped this photograph from his vantage full stop on the International Space Station to capture the dreaming of his country ( and space sports fan everywhere ! ) as thespacecraft approached Venus to make its audacious , last - ditch attempt at area . Theplan worked , dedicate the planet its first robotic comrade since the European Space Agency’sVenus Express died in January 2015 .
A small segment of the station ’s Kibo laboratory is barely poking into the top center of the build , accompanied by the bright star Spica .
Later , Yui continued his solemnization of the Nipponese blank space authority by visiting Kibo , the Japanese Experiment Module . Kibo ( “ Hope ” ) is Japan ’s contribution to the International Space Station , and the res publica ’s first human space facility .
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