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Earth’s Atmosphere at the Edge of Space

Earth’s Atmosphere at the Edge of Space

In June 2007, the Space Shuttle crew (STS-117) visiting the International Space Station (ISS) observed spectacular polar mesospheric clouds over north-central Asia (top). The red-to-dark region at the bottom of the image is the dense part of the Earth’s atmosphere. For more like this see Earth From Space.

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2 Responses to “Earth’s Atmosphere at the Edge of Space”

  1. rob Says:
    June 16th, 2008 at 9:00 am

    I’m sure you’ve been watching ‘When We Left Earth’ doc on Discovery Channel. Not as good as “Moon Shot’ from a few years ago - too bad it’s not on DVD.

  2. thomas Says:
    June 16th, 2008 at 9:52 am

    haven’t seen it yet. i just got up to seeing “In the Shadow of the Moon” which is pretty cool. we need to go to Mars so we can stop re-hashing Apollo.

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