Columbus over Earth

Image of Europe's space laboratory Columbus taken by ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano from outside the International Space Station on the second spacewalk to service the cosmic ray detecting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) on 22 November 2019. Bottom right is the external payload Atmosphere–Space Interactions Monitor, or ASIM, installed outside the European space laboratory Columbus to monitor electric events at high altitudes.

Due to the the AMS worksite being difficult to reach on top of the Station’s S3 Truss structure between a pair of solar arrays and radiators, Luca traveled to and from the site on the end of the robotic arm operated by NASA astronaut Jessica Meir from inside the Station.