{"id":21781,"date":"2025-01-28T02:42:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T02:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=21781"},"modified":"2025-01-28T02:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T02:42:32","slug":"nasa-astronaut-captures-stunning-images-of-maha-kumbh-mela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2025\/01\/28\/nasa-astronaut-captures-stunning-images-of-maha-kumbh-mela\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Astronaut Captures Stunning Images of Maha Kumbh Mela"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>HOUSTON, TEXAS, January 27, 2025 (India West): NASA astronaut Don Pettit, aboard the International Space Station (ISS), has shared mesmerizing photos of the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, from a vantage point 248 miles above Earth. The images, posted by Pettit on X, highlight the illuminated tent city near the Sangam, where the Ganga, Yamuna, and Saraswati rivers converge. \u201c2025 Maha Kumbh Mela Ganges River pilgrimage from the ISS at night. The largest human gathering in the world is well lit,\u201d Pettit wrote alongside the photos. Pettit\u2019s photos reveal the sheer scale of the event, with the glowing lights of the tent city standing out against the dark backdrop of night. Pettit is currently aboard the ISS with fellow astronaut Sunita Williams.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/indiawest.com\/nasa-astronaut-captures-stunning-images-of-maha-kumbh-mela\/\n\">https:\/\/indiawest.com\/nasa-astronaut-captures-stunning-images-of-maha-kumbh-mela\/<br><\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON, TEXAS, January 27, 2025 (India West): NASA astronaut Don Pettit, aboard the International Space Station (ISS), has shared mesmerizing,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21798,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21781\/revisions\/21798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}