Posted on 08/21/2017 12:49:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Look closely at this photo of the great North American solar eclipse. You'll notice the sun and the moon's rounded bite taken out of the side. Most of the dark specks are sunspots. But there's something else notable. A larger speck near the curve of the moon's shadow is the International Space Station.
The International Space Station Twitter account shared the photo on Monday with the message "It's the moon, sunspots AND the station in front of the sun. @NASA photographer captures station transiting sun during #Eclipse2017."
The ISS looks different from the sunspots. You can even make out the station's distinctive solar arrays.
The incredible photo took a combination of skill and luck to achieve. It stands with some of the great ISS transit photos of the past, including one from 2015 showing the station's path across the sun. This latest one is all the more spectacular with the backdrop of the eclipse.
Sweet!
That was smart and industrious of somebody/somebodies!
Pretty cool.
But we’ll find out it is somehow racist.
That’s a bug on the lens.
How cool is that?
Cool!
We are now driving on 111-27 south from an eclipse NASA-DOE-Oak Ridge labs event at Cookesville TN . Good show there in the TN Tech stadium with about 12,000 total.
“How cool is that?”
Looks pretty hot!
John Glenn at FOXNEWS pointed this out...it is awesome
:)
A relative who is a medical assistant to an Opthalmologist told us that their office is now getting calls from people who possibly injured their eyes from improper eclipse viewing.
I’M BLIND!
THANKS, NICK!
I hope they’re wearing their eye protection! :-P
I didn’t know we had such tiny astronauts.
WOW
Cool!
SUN ROCKS
NASA should have sent a probe all the way to the Sun during the eclipse.
Then scooped up some Sun rocks and brought them back to Earth quickly.
( /s ) - for the scientifically challenged :-)
I used the glasses for the few times I looked.
No doubt numerous idiots probably didn’t.
“...NASA should have sent a probe all the way to the Sun during the eclipse....”
It would need to be manned by a diversity team in order for it to be an officially certified event. They’d also need to include a bunch of snowflakes to go along with em.
Representative Shelia Jackson-Lee (whose last name MUST be torn down) has burned out her retinas looking for the American flag on the ISS.
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