NASA Photos of the Day: A Spectacular, Unique View of Space Shuttle Endeavour and the Orbital Sunset

U.S.A's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) ^ | February 9, 2010 | International Space Station (Expedition 22) Astronaut

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NASA Explains Earth's Colorful Horizon
"The orange layer is the troposphere where all of the weather and clouds which we typically watch and experience are generated and contained. This orange layer gives way to the whitish stratosphere and then into the mesosphere. In some frames the black color is part of a window frame rather than the blackness of space."

The Photographer
An Expedition 22 astronaut aboard the International Space Station on 9 February 2010, orbiting 183 nautical miles above the South Pacific ocean off the coast of southern Chile.

The Video From an External Camera On the Outside of the International Space Station
http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=HHgtED2PfAc

  The Via
http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20061021.htm (photos 35 through 38) 

[raptor22]

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[dblshot]

Sunset on the Space Shuttle. Unfortunately too appropriate.

[RWGinger]

Thanks
This was spectacular

[toldyou]

Have you ever viewed the ISS traveling overhead? Not much to see with the naked eye...looks like a moving star...but I find it absolutely facinating.

After it passes overhead, (I’m on the east coast of USA), I go to the website that shows where it is 15-20 minutes later, and I’m just amazed to see that it might be over Europe or Africa!

[smokingfrog]

Pretty cool!

[servantboy777]

Beautiful pix.

Now, let's go throw another few billion away.

I'm thinking NASA needs to do a lil better job explaining just what is the return on the hundreds of millions they spend.

I'm not anti-NASA, in fact I live in the Space City. It's one of Houston's finest institutions and were proud of it.

With that being said, they need more accountability.