A few nice earth image images I found:
Plasma Over the Pacific (NASA, International Space Station, 10/29/11)
Image by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
This unusual photograph, captured by one of the Expedition 29 crew members aboard the International Space Station, highlights the reentry plasma trail (center) of Progress 42P (M-10M) supply vehicle. Progress 42P docked at the space station on April 29, 2011, and was undocked and de-orbited approximately 183 days later on Oct. 29, 2011. The ISS was located over the southern Pacific Ocean when this image was taken. Light from the rising sun illuminates the curvature of the Earth limb (horizon line) at top, but does not completely overwhelm the airglow visible at image top left. Airglow is caused by light emitted at specific wavelengths by atoms and molecules excited by ultraviolet radiation in the upper atmosphere.
Image credit: NASA
Original image:
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-29/html/...
More about space station research:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/index.html
There's a Flickr group about Space Station Research. Please feel welcome to join! www.flickr.com/groups/stationscience/
View more than 400 photos like this in the "NASA Earth Images" Flickr photoset:
www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/
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another place
Image by Robert Couse-Baker
If anyone out there cares, I'll be off line for a few days each week for the next while. I really enjoy posting every day, but I have some really boring study I have to do and it means sequestering myself to an undisclosed location so I can study for a compulsory correspondence course (which has the excitement level of a dial tone and is as filling as rice cakes). I'll be on line about once per week. Ya' all have fun and happy holidays. (Credit NASA for the Earth image of this picture)
