The first humans to orbit Earth’s polar regions showed off some impressive photos and videos of Earth’s ice caps, x-rays and more during the Fram2 mission.

“Hello, Antarctica. Unlike previously anticipated, from 460 km above, it is only pure white, no human activity is visible,” posted Cmdr. Chun Wang on X, previously known as Twitter, on Wednesday morning.

The post featured a video that shows one of the four members of the mission cranking open SpaceX’s Dragon capsule’s cupola — a small observation area — where the sheer whiteness of the South Pole was laid out.

Wang — along with vehicle Cmdr. Jannicke Mikkelsen, mission pilot Rabea Rogge and mission specialist and medical officer Eric Philips — took off from the Kennedy Space Center on Monday night for the three-to-five day mission.  

The Fram2 crew are the first humans ever to orbit Earth’s polar regions from space as they conduct various experiments, like doing the first x-rays in space.

In a detailed post, Wang shared that he did not even realize they were in space until he set free a stuffed polar bear named Tyler, the mission’s zero-gravity indicator.

“If I hadn’t set free Tyler, the polar bear zero-gravity indicator, I might not have realized we were already weightless. I think being tightly strapped into our seat buckets made the transition less noticeable,” Wang commented.

He did reveal that all four of them got space sick and vomited quite a bit, saying that the motion sickness was different from being in a car.

However, he said on the second day, everyone was feeling OK and ate breakfast.

That is when they took the first x-rays in space and Rogge used a ham radio to contact Berlin. She is the first German woman in space.

The crew are doing various projects, like Rogge hosting Fram2Ham, an amateur radio competition.

Or like taking aurora photos for the SolarMax project.

There has been no word on when the Fram2 will splash down to Earth in the Pacific Ocean.