Posted on 11/06/2020 3:03:48 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: Completing one orbit of our fair planet in 90 minutes the International Space Station can easily be spotted by eye as a very bright star moving through the night sky. Have you seen it? The next time you do, you will have recognized the location of over 20 years of continuous human presence in space. In fact, the Expedition 1 crew to the ISS docked with the orbital outpost some 400 kilometers above the Earth on November 2, 2000. No telescope is required to spot the ISS flashing through the night. But this telescopic field of view does reveal remarkable details of the space station captured as it transited the waning gibbous moon on November 3, just one day after the space age milestone. The well-timed telescopic snapshot also contains the location of another inspirational human achievement. About 400,000 kilometers away, the Apollo 11 landing site on the dark, smooth lunar Sea of Tranquility is to the right of the ISS silhouette.
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Pinging the APOD list.
What a picture.
The universe is just a mind boggling thing.
It’s so tremendous and wonderful that it makes you forget about things here on this rock for a little while.
It’s so peaceful looking.
It takes one away from the impending civil war that I’ve mocked so many for speaking about over the past decade.
I want to fly a rocket ship as far away as possible and just keep on going :)
I don’t think my Dodge Challenger is up to it.
Not the same day, but it gives an idea how quickly the ISS passes over the moon and how small of area it is visible over.
thats movin pretty good!
Uhm, yeah, sorry folks, but that guy’s getting a ticket from Rom, the Space Knight!
Wow, some more fab NASA cgi! Still no shots out the rear view mirror of the Big Blue Marble. Pathetic.
My favorites are the deep space gravitational lens shots, but this is one cool picture.
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