Screenshot of the tweet of Thomas Pesquet on December 8, 2016 – Twitter / 20 Minutes
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The astronaut is not perfect. Thomas Pesquet, who has already taken the habit, since two weeks, to tell of his journey aboard the international space Station (ISS) on social networks, committed his first odd Thursday.

” You don’t see neither the Saone nor the Rhone “

Then he thought to cover and capture the Festival of Lights in Lyon with a shot to the least significant, internet users have pointed to the tip of their nose. Ebahis, the latter questioned the absence of the two rivers running through Lyon: “One sees neither the Saone nor the Rhone,” commented a subscriber Twitter. Some even push the investigation and is surprised to see a coastal city.

SD Cards swapped,

Thomas Pesquet will eventually make the obvious and admits that he is not in Lyon but in Rome ! Always in humour, he tweets ” We can be an astronaut and no geo ! “, stating that he has swapped SD cards.

>> also read : Thomas Pesquet greet Britain (and France) from space

When one knows that the scientist performs 16 rotations per day to 400 km around the earth, an error of this type can be tolerated. It has not confused, New Delhi and Alabama !

The ISS in Paris on Friday

And if Thomas Pesquet is fun to locate the cities, you can also amuse you to locate it. Whether via your computer or your smartphone, you can know where is the space station in real-time.

Thanks to the geolocation, the site “Spot the Station” or “the application” ISS Finder ” allow you to know precisely the dates and times of each overview of the station above your home. Moreover, at 18h47 precise this Friday, the space station will be visible for 2 minutes not in Rome but in Paris.

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