File:Endeavour silhouette STS-130.jpg

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English: Though astronauts and cosmonauts often encounter striking scenes of Earth's limb, this unique image, part of a series over Earth's colorful horizon, has the added feature of a silhouette of the space shuttle Endeavour. The image was photographed by an Expedition 22 crew member prior to STS-130 rendezvous and docking operations with the International Space Station. Docking occurred at 11:06 p.m. (CST) on Feb. 9, 2010. The orbital outpost was at 46.9 south latitude and 80.5 west longitude, over the South Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern Chile, with an altitude of 183 nautical miles (210 statute miles) when the image was recorded. 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.
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Source http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-130/html/iss022e062672.html
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1592.html
Author NASA/Crew of Expedition 22
This image or video was catalogued by Johnson Space Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: ISS022-E-062672.

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This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was created by the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, of the NASA Johnson Space Center. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (NASA media use guidelines or Conditions of Use of Astronaut Photographs). Photo source: ISS022-E-062672.

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Space Shuttle Endeavour appears to straddle the stratosphere and mesosphere

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current17:57, 13 December 2012Thumbnail for version as of 17:57, 13 December 20126,048 × 4,032 (686 KB)wikimediacommons>Ras67Reverted to version as of 13:41, 16 February 2010, Dear Pine your version is larger but not better! It suffered 4:2:0 color subsampling and genaration loss as well as the Huffmann table is not optimized!

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