Day 115, orbit 1780 — On the occasion of World Oceans Day, I’d like to share this photo of two islands, offering a beautiful perspective over the deep blue of the Indian Ocean 🌏. These islands are Réunion 🍍 and Mauritius 🦤, located about 230 km apart.
Réunion’s volcanic landscape creates a vast leeward zone over the ocean. There, the sea surface is calmer, and from the Station, sunlight reflects off it like a mirror – a phenomenon known as specular reflection in Physics.
Protecting the ocean means preserving one of the essential pillars of the Earth system: a reservoir of biodiversity, a regulator of climate, and a link between continents and cultures. Around the world, we call it by different names, but from 400 km above, there is only one ocean, a truly global one. 🌊
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