Flipping through his new book of more than 200 photographs of Earth, or if you are determined, the more than 245,000 images he took during his second mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS), you get the sense that Thomas Pesquet thoroughly captured the planet. In The Earth in Our Hands: Photos from the International Space Station, Pesquet curates his favourite views of our home world, showcasing its varied landscapes of both natural and human-made features. With a familiarity that only an astronaut can gain while looking down at Earth for hundreds of days, Pesquet not only conveys the beauty of Earth, but its fragility and the toll climate change has had on our environment.
But as complete a portrait of Earth as Pesquet was able to capture, there was
