Sunrise to Sunset aboard the Space Station

This sequence of time-lapse photographs illustrates roughly half an orbit, from sunrise over Northern Europe (top photograph) to sunset southeast of Australia, on April 28, 2010. The view is to the north of the station's ground track. In the upper-left, is the tail of the Space Shuttle Discovery, which docked with the Space Station during the STS-131 mission. The animation begins with a view of snow-covered Norway (image top) and the Jutland Peninsula (image center). Low clouds cover Central Europe (image bottom).

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Science & Technology

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• space
• iss
• discovery
• sts-131
• nasa

[1BustedMyth]

We little Humans, fighting over bits of land sticking up out of an ocean on a spherical Island in space, when will we learn?

We all share the same air and water

[xilin1983]

We will not learn until we suffer severe consequences due to our careless occupation spread.

[useful777]

@culture101

They don't/won't do that because the moment they do everyone will know that the sun and stars are moving and not the earth and the jig will be up. It's always the same view - a camera shot filled with mostly the earth and a little piece of black space with no stars. One day the truth will come out, it is inevitable.

[4eritas]

@culture101 agreed, want my opinion? Because if they do, then the esoteric truth of our solar system would be revealed...that sun is TINY....no larger than our own moon. People need to start questioning what they are being told and by whom is telling them...

[culture101]

why they don't they turn the cam towards the sun, with a filter or something. Would like to see how the sun looks like in space.

[twilight8181]

@1BustedMyth as long as money is been made,the people running the planet dont care about the environment

[ieatskotchtape]

@1BustedMyth but some of that air and water is the better than the others

[barrach7]

But where's Waldo?!



[saganemc2]

sure seems close

[joshgreen19]

"we're a virus with shoes" - bill hicks

[lykenth08]

I spy with my little eye.... xD