Stunning New Photo from the Space Station: The Moon Ushers in Dawn

universetoday.com ^ | May 1, 2013 | Nancy Atkinson on

[BenLurkin]

During his evening ritual of sharing images taken from the International Space Station, Commander Chris Hadfield posted this gem: a gorgeous night-time view of the southeastern United States, with the Moon hovering over Earth’s limb and the terminator separating night from day. Dawn is just beginning to break to the east, as the ISS flies overhead.

This image reflects the ‘wistful’ feelings Hadfield is having as his time in space in coming to a close. He and his two crewmates Tom Marshburn and Roman Romanenko will head back to Earth on May 13.

During a recent linkup with students, Hadfield said he is becoming “wistful” as he does tasks aboard the ISS, realizing he is doing some for the last time. He is trying to spending as much of his free time gazing out the window at Earth “because of the magnificent rarity of it and my desire to absorb as much of it as I possibly can.”

[houeto]

Wow!

[SunkenCiv]

You could use a graphics program to blow the image up to the size (in pixels) of your screen and do a save-as, or as a shortcut, if you can do a Print Screen (which in Windows copies the screen or active window to clipboard) and paste into a paint program, you could set up a quickie HTML image tag, using the “WIDTH” and/or “HEIGHT” modifier to make it at or near screen size.

[houeto]

Thanks.