Overview

• Veteran NASA astronaut Don Pettit shared a photograph from the International Space Station that shows Mount Everest and a broad sweep of the Himalayas.
• Pettit took the image during his most recent ISS assignment, a 220-day mission that concluded earlier this year.
• The high-resolution view highlights Everest’s summit and the snow-clad Himalayan range from low-Earth orbit.
• Separately, a widely shared video claims Everest was visible from Bihar in eastern India, a rare sight reported during periods of exceptional atmospheric clarity and low pollution.
• News coverage frames both the orbital photo and the Bihar clip as viral moments of public fascination rather than new scientific findings.