Here's Kelly's first stunning shot of Earth from space, taken 27 weeks ago.
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His photos are filled with striking colors, from neon greens...
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... To vibrant yellow. Unfortunately, Kelly used to not include where these photos were taken, leaving his Instagram audience to guess where these shots were taken.
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But lately he's been getting much better, labeling his shots with hashtags to share its location, like this leaf-like picture over the #Sahara desert.
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And this one over South America, which looks like something straight out of a kaleidescope.
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Kelly has also been good at documenting huge natural disasters, like Hurricane Patricia, which reached winds up to 200 mph before making landfall.
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His perspective living up on the International Space Station makes for some one-of-a-kind shots, like this one of a desert lake. Kelly remarks that the reflection from the cloud makes it look as if this lake is actually filled with liquid metal.
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While he's up there, Kelly is taking part in studies to see what happens to the human body while it's out in space for a year, along with Kelly's twin, Mark who's on Earth for comparison.
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Kelly labels the photos with the hashtag #EarthArt. It's easy to see why.
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Kelly captures other amazing phenomenon, like these Northern Lights as seen with Chicago in the foreground.
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Kelly recently made it past the halfway point on his yearlong tour in the ISS, which he celebrated with this Instagram selfie.
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Kelly edged past US astronaut Mike Fincke’s record of 382 cumulative days in space on October 16. Kelly passed another milestone for the most time consecutively spent in space by a US astronaut on October 29.
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Earlier in October, Kelly took to setting up photo series based on certain locations that showcase the wide variety in colors and textures in those areas. Here's his first in a series on the Australian continent.
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This one, also in the series of the Australian continent, looks more like an abstract work of art than an actual place here on Earth.
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Seriously. How are these photos real?!
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Kelly's also started a series on industrialized China, highlighting different factory areas in the country. So far, he's shared five of his 10 pictures.
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