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NASA and ISS Photo of the Day: Stunning View of Earth's Moon "Orbiting Inside" Earth's Atmosphere
ChamorroBible.org ^
| May 11, 2003
| NASA and International Space Station (Expedition 7)
Posted on 07/09/2007 5:18:10 PM PDT by EnjoyingLife
![61. It's a Spectacular, Beautiful, and Scenic View of Planet Earth -- Pitch Black Night Approaching From the Left, Moonset Over a Blue Atmosphere Above Earth's Terminator and Horizon, Broad Daylight to the Right Over Cloudly Skies -- On May 11, 2003, at 20:03:04 UTC (GMT) as the International Space Station (Expedition 7) Silently Travels High Above and Across Rossiyskaya Federatsiya - Russian Federation. Photo Credit: ISS007-E-5379, Night to the right, Earth's terminator, Full daylight to the right, Setting of Earth's moon, International Space Station (Expedition Seven) over Russia; 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=5379>; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, http://www.nasa.gov), Government of the United States of America (USA). In the photo caption <http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS007&roll=E&frame=5379> NASA describes this impressive picture: The moon is really a quarter of a million [250,000] miles away. The picture is tricky because of its uneven lighting. The sun's elevation angle is only 6 [six] degrees. On the left side of the image, night is falling; on the right side, it's still broad daylight. This gradient of sunlight is the key to the illusion.](http://ChamorroBible.org/images/photos/gpw-200702-61-NASA-ISS007-E-5379-night-terminator-day-moonset-20030511-Russian-Federation-medium.jpg)
A beautiful photo of a spectacular moonset, with night on the left and full daylight on the right, taken by a crewmember aboard the International Space Station on 11 May 2003 (20:03:04 UTC) while over Russia. The moon "floating" inside Earth's atmosphere is an impressive illusion. Via photo 61 at http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-200702.htm
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1540 x 1015 pixels: http://ChamorroBible.org/images/photos/gpw-200702-61-NASA-ISS007-E-5379-night-terminator-day-moonset-20030511-Russian-Federation-medium.jpg 3030 x 2000 pixels: http://ChamorroBible.org/images/photos/gpw-200702-61-NASA-ISS007-E-5379-night-terminator-day-moonset-20030511-Russian-Federation-large.jpg
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: federation; iss; nasa; russian
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To: EnjoyingLife
Now my wallpaper, stunning!
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posted on
07/09/2007 5:21:50 PM PDT
by
Las Vegas Dave
(HDTV ping list, please FReepmail me if you would like your name added.)
To: Las Vegas Dave
What a picture! I would be content with poster size.
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posted on
07/09/2007 5:24:38 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
( CHIRHO)
To: EnjoyingLife
=o ! <-— that’s my jaw on the floor.
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posted on
07/09/2007 5:31:12 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(Freedom is the right of all sentient beings - Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime)
To: Las Vegas Dave
Mine too. How could anyone get tired of looking at sites like that? And to think it only takes three days to get there and three days back. What a ride that must have been, and will be again.
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posted on
07/09/2007 5:35:46 PM PDT
by
NCC-1701
(ELIMINATE ORGANIZED CRIME. ABOLISH THE I.R.S.)
To: EnjoyingLife
I’ve never seen so many great photos! Everyone, go to the ChamarroBible link....incredible shots.
Thanks for posting.
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posted on
07/09/2007 5:37:06 PM PDT
by
Cedar
To: EnjoyingLife
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posted on
07/09/2007 5:53:29 PM PDT
by
GulfWar1Vet
(Democrats=Cowards, traitors and wannabe Muslim)
To: NCC-1701
Heck, it took me 22 hours just to get to Green Bay!
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posted on
07/09/2007 6:17:08 PM PDT
by
weegee
(If the Fairness Doctrine is imposed on USA who will CNN news get to read the conservative rebuttal)
To: EnjoyingLife
I just loaded the 3030x2000 file. Any idea what/why the vertical ‘time exposure’ streaks downward from the brighter stars???
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posted on
07/09/2007 6:30:08 PM PDT
by
skeptoid
(AA, UE, MBS (with clusters))
To: EnjoyingLife
I just loaded the 3030x2000 file. Any idea what/why the vertical ‘time exposure’ streaks downward from the brighter stars???
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posted on
07/09/2007 6:30:10 PM PDT
by
skeptoid
(AA, UE, MBS (with clusters))
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
07/09/2007 6:46:30 PM PDT
by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
To: swatbuznik; Potts Mtn. Pappy; Kevmo; wastedyears; dragonblustar; ssaftler; LucyT; Old Student; ...
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posted on
07/09/2007 6:52:20 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Mitt Romney 08)
To: EnjoyingLife; All
Bottom right and then directly left of the smudge: Is that a rocket launch in progress? Better visibility on the
3030 x 2000 photo.
To: EnjoyingLife
"That's no moon - it's a space station..."
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posted on
07/09/2007 7:07:21 PM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Press 1 for English, press 2 for deport)
To: EnjoyingLife
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posted on
07/09/2007 7:12:57 PM PDT
by
God luvs America
(When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
To: EnjoyingLife
Maybe it’s a meteor
Good eye!
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posted on
07/09/2007 7:26:00 PM PDT
by
vigilante2
(Thank You Troops)
To: EnjoyingLife
Could this actually be a moonrise, the spacecraft looking east? The blue star next to the moon is Sirius. The red star to the left is Betelgeuse and Rigel to its right (part of the constellation of Orion) and Canopus over to the right?
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posted on
07/09/2007 7:28:39 PM PDT
by
Procyon
(the lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.)
To: EnjoyingLife
I have a an old NASA publication from 1979, A NEW SUN The Solar Results From Skylab, and I always remembered a moonset sequence ( page 43 ) which shows extreme distortion of the moon's apparent disk.
Sure enough, when I looked for ISS photos of a moonset at SEARCH NTRS , I found these, which are far more impressive, and much more in line with the Skylab book than the posted photo:
( ISS007-E-5379 is there too, but I have to say it seems inconsonant with the other examples, of which there are many more. )
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posted on
07/09/2007 11:31:19 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: SevenofNine
To: weegee
Traffic jam on the tri-state????
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![61. It's a Spectacular, Beautiful, and Scenic View of Planet Earth -- Pitch Black Night Approaching From the Left, Moonset Over a Blue Atmosphere Above Earth's Terminator and Horizon, Broad Daylight to the Right Over Cloudly Skies -- On May 11, 2003, at 20:03:04 UTC (GMT) as the International Space Station (Expedition 7) Silently Travels High Above and Across Rossiyskaya Federatsiya - Russian Federation. Photo Credit: ISS007-E-5379, Night to the right, Earth's terminator, Full daylight to the right, Setting of Earth's moon, International Space Station (Expedition Seven) over Russia; 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=5379>; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, http://www.nasa.gov), Government of the United States of America (USA). In the photo caption <http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS007&roll=E&frame=5379> NASA describes this impressive picture: The moon is really a quarter of a million [250,000] miles away. The picture is tricky because of its uneven lighting. The sun's elevation angle is only 6 [six] degrees. On the left side of the image, night is falling; on the right side, it's still broad daylight. This gradient of sunlight is the key to the illusion.](http://ChamorroBible.org/images/photos/gpw-200702-61-NASA-ISS007-E-5379-night-terminator-day-moonset-20030511-Russian-Federation-large.jpg)
