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Stunning NASA and ISS Photo of the Day: Beauty Overload -- So Take a Deep Breath Before Viewing!
ChamorroBible.org ^ | July 21, 2003 | NASA, International Space Station (Expedition 7)

Posted on 06/24/2007 7:24:49 AM PDT by EnjoyingLife

Photo 49. Spectacular View of a Pacific Ocean Sunset, and an Enormous Thundercloud, as Seen From the International Space Station (Expedition 7) on July 21, 2003. Photo Credit: ISS007-E-10807, Sunset, Pacific Ocean, Earth's horizon, Anvil tops, Thunderclouds, International Space Station (Expedition 7); Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center. 'Astronaut Photography of Earth - Display Record.' <http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS007&roll=E&frame=10807>; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, http://www.nasa.gov), Government of the United States of America (USA).

Sunset over the Pacific Ocean as seen from the International Space Station (Expedition 7) on 21 July 2003. Above photo via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-200702.htm (photo 49), see photos 47 and 48 too.
Image link, 1502 x 1002 pixels: http://ChamorroBible.org/images/photos/gpw-200702-49-NASA-ISS007-E-10807-space-sunset-20030721-Pacific-Ocean-medium.jpg


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To: EnjoyingLife
For my weather geek friend later.

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41 posted on 06/24/2007 9:58:52 AM PDT by Lurker (Comparing moderate islam to extremist islam is like comparing small pox to plague.)
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To: RightWhale

Please don’t stop you do a great job. Everybody has bad days and/or (usually and) say silly things at times. Like others I have set the zoomed version as my desktop. Don’t doubt it really is appreciated. :D)


42 posted on 06/24/2007 10:00:48 AM PDT by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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To: fish hawk

Was this taken during the lunar landing? Foil on head.


43 posted on 06/24/2007 10:03:48 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (If General Patton was alive, he would slap many faces!!)
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To: fish hawk
Black sky, no stars???

That's right. Camera lens had to be stopped down because of the bright sun and bright earth plus exposure length was short for the same reason. You need wide open lenses and long exposure times to capture the comparatively faint stars (even the brightest ones).
44 posted on 06/24/2007 10:04:33 AM PDT by plsvn
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To: Nuc1

Stopped in ‘04. Anyway, my favorite source, who spent a lot of his time rooting around for these thought-provoking science articles died suddenly and has not been replaced.


45 posted on 06/24/2007 10:07:08 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Treaty)
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To: RightWhale

Yes, they’re pearlescent; and they’re in wave form; and they’re high stratospheric, rather than tropspheric.

Normal pearlescent or iridescent are much lower & more common.

Try these photo pages, and see some spectacular nacreous & a good explaination.

http://www.atoptics.co.uk/nacr1.htm

http://www.atoptics.co.uk/highsky/psc1.htm


46 posted on 06/24/2007 10:19:10 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: Nuc1; RightWhale
Please don’t stop you do a great job.

Here's a second to that. I most always learn something new on threads in which RightWhale is posting -- such as this thread's "nacreous clouds" that prompted an Internet search and the discovery of some beautiful photos of such clouds.

47 posted on 06/24/2007 10:23:49 AM PDT by ngc6656
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To: EnjoyingLife

I’ve been looking for a new wallpaper.

Thanks. =-)


48 posted on 06/24/2007 10:26:28 AM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Mohammedanism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
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To: EnjoyingLife

Try to avoid flying through those purty anvil top thingies. They’ll ruin your day.


49 posted on 06/24/2007 10:27:29 AM PDT by shove_it (old Old Guardsman)
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To: EnjoyingLife

Beautiful.


50 posted on 06/24/2007 10:30:16 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: RightWhale

Sorry to hear.


51 posted on 06/24/2007 11:25:34 AM PDT by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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To: All

With magnificent views like that it must take a lot of discipline for the shuttle astronauts and ISS crew to remain focused on their mission.


52 posted on 06/25/2007 12:13:30 AM PDT by EnjoyingLife
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To: EnjoyingLife; KevinDavis; Aeronaut; Paleo Conservative; RightWhale; AFPhys; IonImplantGuru; ...
All I have to say with that is: "Out with the old:

click to download 1600x2400px (@240px/in) jpg image)

And in with the new. You guys are free to use my old desktop wallpaper as you guys see fit (or not). Whatever, I don't care; I gots me new wallpaper now.

53 posted on 06/25/2007 12:46:15 AM PDT by raygun (What a stupid questinn: "In case of emergency notify whom?" CALL 911 for cyring out loud!)
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To: RightWhale

Intercontinental aircraft service altitudes are directly proportional to density altitude. So at AGL 200 at Lat 70, the density altitude is equivalent to 450 AGL at 20 Lat. This is akin to the difference between AGS and IAS at altitude. Guess which one is lower and explain why.


54 posted on 06/25/2007 1:00:51 AM PDT by raygun (What a stupid questinn: "In case of emergency notify whom?" CALL 911 for cyring out loud!)
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To: raygun
Guess which one is lower and explain why.

See above.

55 posted on 06/25/2007 7:34:49 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Treaty)
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To: raygun

raygun, seeing a hand-me-down “old [computer] desktop wallpaper” offer was a first for me! That’s a good one!


56 posted on 06/27/2007 12:52:12 AM PDT by EnjoyingLife
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To: ApplegateRanch; RightWhale; bill1952

How tall and wide do you think the more prominent towering thundercloud in the photo is, i.e., the one with the anvil top that appears to have bumped into an invisible ceiling, and is having its top blown to the left.


57 posted on 07/01/2007 12:02:14 AM PDT by EnjoyingLife
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To: notpoliticallycorewrecked

Save for later


58 posted on 07/01/2007 12:04:23 AM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame." Benjamin Franklin)
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To: EnjoyingLife

Can’t be over ten miles high.


59 posted on 07/01/2007 7:31:25 AM PDT by RightWhale (It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
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To: Dr.Zoidberg

Do you know how to save wallpaper so it doesn’t go away when the computer shuts down? I have saved some very nice pictures only to have them disappear.


60 posted on 07/01/2007 7:40:02 AM PDT by beckysueb (Pray for our troops , America, and President Bush)
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