Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's tweets from space have gone viral.  On Jan. 8, 2013 Hadfield tweeted, "Australia - the dryness creates colours and textures that make the Outback immediately recognizable from space."

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's tweets from space have gone viral.  On Jan. 8, 2013 Hadfield tweeted, "A crazed stained glass mosaic - the winter black and white of farms in central Asia."

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's tweets from space have gone viral.  On Jan. 8, 2013 Hadfield tweeted, "Australian beach - the tip of King Sound, near Derby in the Northwest."

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's tweets from space have gone viral.  On Jan. 8, 2013 Hadfield tweeted, "Photographing Earth - in the Cupola with the big lens."

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's tweets from space have gone viral.  On Jan. 5, 2013 Hadfield tweeted, "Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, and the town where I was born, Sarnia Ontario."

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's tweets from space have gone viral.  On Jan. 8, 2013 Hadfield tweeted, "Thunderstorm from above. What animal to you see?"

Here is what Mt. Vesuvius looks like from orbit.

Hadfield said on Twitter that he removed his zoom lens to take this image of Newfoundland and Labrador on Jan. 7.