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NASA astronauts leave the International Space Station to return to Earth.

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NASA astronauts leave the International Space Station to return to Earth.

On Thursday, NASA’s third long-duration astronaut team to the International Space Station (ISS) departed the station to return to Earth (May 5). These astronauts were on a six-month mission and were transported to the International Space Station by SpaceX when it began.

At 1:20 a.m. EDT (0520 GMT), the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying three US NASA astronauts and a German astronaut from the European Space Agency undocked from the International Space Station to begin a 23-hour return flight.

The capsule was seen drifting away from the ISS on live video.

The four astronauts were seen strapped into the crew cabin wearing helmeted white and black spacesuits shortly before the spacecraft separated from the space station, orbiting some 250 miles (400 kilometres) above the Earth.

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The capsule was then safely pushed clear of the ISS and its orbit was lowered to line up the spacecraft for later atmospheric reentry and splashdown with a series of brief rocket thrusts.

The Crew Dragon craft, dubbed Endurance, will parachute into the sea off the coast of Florida at 12:43 a.m. EDT (0443 GMT) on Friday if everything goes according to plan (May 6).

On November 11, the Endurance crew, which included American astronauts Tom Marshburn, 61, Raja Chari, 44, and Kayla Barron, 34, and ESA crewmate Matthias Maurer, 52, arrived at the space station.

They left a week after welcoming their replacement team aboard the station, which is also home to three Russian cosmonauts on a long-term mission. Oleg Artemyev, one of those cosmonauts, took command of the ISS from Marshburn in a handover before Thursday’s undocking, according to NASA.

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Nasa’s old map of Jupiter, which reminds many of dosa, has gone viral once more

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Nasa’s old map of Jupiter, which reminds many of dosa, has gone viral once more

Certain images or videos frequently resurface on the Internet, leaving people speechless. When those clips or pictures are shared again on one social media platform or another, they create a buzz. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) created and posted this image of a map of Jupiter online a few years ago. After being shared on Twitter, the image drew a lot of attention this time. And, as usual, the image made people think of dosa, a popular South Indian dish.

The image was shared by the Twitter account Latest in Space. “From the very bottom of Jupiter, I’m looking up. While tweeting the image, they wrote, “Seen by NASA Cassini.” The images from the Cassini spacecraft’s narrow-angle camera were used to create this out-of-this-world image, which is part of a coloured map series produced by the space agency.

The article was published a few days ago. The tweet has received nearly 20,000 likes since it was shared, and the number is growing. The tweet has been retweeted more than 2,000 times. Take a look at some of the comments to see how the image of Jupiter looks like dosa.

A Twitter user commented, “Looks like a designer dosa.” “When I rush to pick up a call, this is what happens to my dosa on the dosa pan,” one joked. “This is how my mother makes Dosa,” a third said. “Jupiter in the making,” wrote a fourth, along with a photo of someone preparing – you guessed it – dosa.

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