Looking back at Earth

Date- 27th Oct 11 Source- http://multimedia.esa.int/

'Astronaut's own personal views of Earth, as captured on hand-held video cameras looking out the window of the station (with sounds of the ISS interior).'

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• nasa
• esa
• iss
• earth

[jimbarbwe1985]

Not me i had my eyed closed. If i cant see you, you cant see me

[clearair]

@HiAdrian Oh I see what you mean. I think those faint greyish dots are anomalies in the camera CCD chip, due to the high gamma in a low light setting.

[HiAdrian]

@heloizyjhenifer Good observation, probably something at the editing stage then.

[heloizyjhenifer]

@HiAdrian By the end you can see this starfield is fixed, either an editing error or camera problem.

[HiAdrian]

@clearair Yes, but i meant the star field. It looks like we're looking through earth at the night sky, and i can't make sense of it.

[clearair]

@HiAdrian I believe those flashes are lightening strikes..

[HiAdrian]

Amazing, insane speed.

Why do we see stars in the area occupied by Earth at 11:20 and later? Does anyone know?

[mrteemumilto]

Gravity is like the third force in between atoms. The strong force keeps the protons and neutrons together, the weak force keeps the core and the electrons together, and then there is a sphere of even weaker force, that grows weaker linearilly, as you take distance from the atoms. The more there are atoms, the more there is gravity to the neighbouring objects, and the density.

Or perhaps gravity is the weak force, that has this influence beyond the core and the electron shell, unmeasurable

[mrteemumilto]

There are no states.

[DarkMatter1958]

FANTASTIC!! ;)