Astronauts — like many people — just can't get enough photos of Earth from space. But one dedicated space station crew has taken space photography to next level after shattering the all-time record for the most pictures taken during a single spaceflight.

The recent Expedition 22 crew of the International Space Station snapped 100,000 images of space and the Earth from above over a roughly six-month period. The mission ended earlier this month with a snowy landing in Kazakhstan, with a new crew blasting off today for the orbiting laboratory.
Expedition 22 commander Jeff Williams of NASA, along with flight engineers Max Suraev and Oleg Kotov of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Timothy (T.J.) Creamer of NASA, and Soichi Noguchi of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, made up the mission crew.
The photo-happy spaceflyers have brought the total number of pictures taken from the space station to a grand sum of almost 639,000 images (more views of Earth from space).
Williams broke his own previous record of 83,856 images taken during an ISS mission, set during his stint on Expedition 13 in 2006.
“This week we broke my old Exp. 13 record for number of Earth photos,” Williams wrote on Twitter from the station. “Later, after landing and recovery, I will post some of best.” Williams writes as “Astro_Jeff” on the microblogging site. Noguchi, an especially avid space photographer, also frequently posts pictures he's taken from the station to his twitter feed as “Astro_Soichi.”
“Mt. Fuji, JAPAN. On the morning of my 100th day on orbit :-)” he tweeted on March 30.
The bulk of the astronauts' photography will be used in scientific research about the Earth's climate and resources and how those are changing over time. NASA has been amassing data of Earth seen from space since the Gemini missions in the 1960s.
(Source: Space.com)