A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Words

Okay, so if one picture is worth 1,000 words, then that means that 100,000 pictures are worth 100,000,000 words? That's a lot of zeros. That's a lot of words. But that was the goal of the Expedition 22 crew aboard the International Space Station, which just landed on March 18, thus ending Commander Jeff Williams' five-and-a-half month stay on the station. Williams was actually trying to break his previous record from Expedition 13 in 2006, when he snapped 83,856 pictures.

Among the 100,000 photos taken by Commander Williams, an image of the Houston metropolitan area at night


The number of pictures taken by all the crews that have manned the International Space Station totals 639,000 pictures.

Visit the 2008 "top ten" pictures taken from the International Space Station here.