Twittering Pictures From Orbit

@Astro_Soichi is sending back pictures – live – from ISS via Twitter and Twitpic:
– Golden Gate Bridge, San Fransisco, CA. Beautiful shadow 🙂 http://twitpic.com/10iitj
– Noctilucent clouds. Antarctic. Priceless. http://twitpic.com/10iiti
But wait – there’s more yet to come from orbit: according to JT Creamer: RT @Astro_TJ: @space_pete Yes it’s true: our internal cameras wlll stream to the Web beginning Monday! Wave when you see us!! 🙂
NASA’s space tweets are part of a larger conversation, Government Computing News
“… the software upgrade that made it possible is pretty impressive. The system, which NASA calls the Crew Support LAN, taps into existing communications links — a Ku satellite band with 3 megabits/sec upstream and 10 megabits/sec downstream — to give astronauts Web access, along with the ability to better communicate with family and loved ones during their long stays on the space station. All that while traveling at 17,300 mph some 250 miles above the Earth.”