Earth Observation
ISS040-E-87351 (1 Aug. 2014) --- This sunset shot, photographed by an Expedition 40 crew member on the International Space Station, shows polar mesospheric clouds only as a thin bright line ? far above the lowest, yellow-brown weather layer of the atmosphere (known as the troposphere) when the space station was flying over southern Ukraine on Aug. 1, 2014.
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NASA ID
iss040e087351
Date Created
August 1, 2014
Center
JSC
Media Type
image
Photographer
Alex Gerst
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