Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
Earth at Twilight
Explanation:
No sudden, sharp boundary marks the passage of day into night [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] in this gorgeous view [ http://eol.jsc.nasa…photo.pl?mission=ISS 002&roll=E&frame=737 7 ] of ocean and clouds over our fair planet Earth [ http://earthobserva…]. Instead, the shadow line or terminator [ http://sci.gallaude…] is diffuse and shows the gradual transition to darkness we experience as twilight. With the Sun illuminating the scene from the right, the cloud tops reflect gently reddened sunlight filtered [ http://webexhibits.…] through the dusty troposphere, the lowest layer of the planet's nurturing atmosphere [ http://liftoff.msfc…atmosphere.html ]. A clear high altitude layer, visible along the dayside's upper edge, scatters blue [ http://webexhibits.…] sunlight and fades into the blackness of space. This picture actually [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] is a single digital photograph taken in June of 2001 from the International Space Station orbiting at [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] an altitude of 211 nautical miles [ http://www.gwydir.d…].
Credit and Copyright:
ISS Crew [ http://spaceflight.…], Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Lab [ http://eol.jsc.nasa…], JSC [ http://www.jsc.nasa…], NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/]
facet_when:
2001
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_where:
Johnson Space Center (JSC)
facet_where:
Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
facet_what:
Earth
facet_what:
Sun
facet_what:
International Space Station (ISS)
facet_when_year:
2001
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap030424

Earth at Twilight
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