These 13 photos perfectly capture astronaut Scott Kelly's year in space

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Astronaut Scott Kelly has broken the record for spending more continuous time in space than any other NASA astronaut - 340 days in orbit. And on Tuesday, March 1, he's scheduled to return to planet Earth.

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When he comes home, Kelly will have circled the globe 5,440 times, for a total distance of 143,846,525 miles, according to the New York Times.

That's a lot of time to take amazing photos.

And thanks to the magic of the Internet, he's been documenting the whole thing on Instagram for his 844,000 followers.

The photos are so incredible it would be impossible to rank them. These are the ones that perfectly capture his artistic eye.

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