From Ushant to Brest in big

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet spent six months on the International Space Station as part of his second mission Alpha in 2021. In his free time, like many astronauts, he enjoyed looking out of the Cupola windows at Earth.

This collage of pictures shows the island of Ushant, a French island at the southwestern end of the English Channel, and the city harbour of Brest on the right, made from many pictures mapped together, digitally rotated and assembled into this large collage. 

Thomas asked to have the series of highly zoomed-in pictures aligned into this collage to show the area in detail.

The International Space Station flies at roughly 400 km altitude so Thomas used the longest lenses available onboard.