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First UAE astronaut Hazzaa Al Mansoori posts a satellite picture of Mecca , gets viral

Emirati astronaut Hazzaa Al Mansoori shared a mesmerizing satellite picture of The Great Mosque of Mecca in Saudi Arabia on his Instagram profile.

Mansoori, along with astronauts Nick Hague and Aleksey Ovchinin, departed the ISS station in the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft around 11.37 am on Thursday before touching down at 3.59 pm in a remote section of Kazakhstan. Mansoori, during his stay at the ISS, orbited the earth 128 times, which is almost a 5 million kilometer journey.

 

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