NASA PHOTO -
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/573236main_iss028e018218_full.jpg
Station Crew Views Shuttle Landing
This unprecedented view of the space shuttle Atlantis, appearing like a bean sprout against clouds and city lights, on its way home, was photographed by the Expedition 28 crew of the International Space Station. Airglow over Earth can be seen in the background.
Image Credit: NASA
I have run out of monitors for all these incredible "screensaver/wallpaper" NASA photos ...
Clint Bradford, K6LCS
On 07/25/11 14:27, Clint Bradford wrote:
NASA PHOTO -
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/573236main_iss028e018218_full.jpg
Station Crew Views Shuttle Landing
This unprecedented view of the space shuttle Atlantis, appearing like a bean sprout against clouds and city lights, on its way home, was photographed by the Expedition 28 crew of the International Space Station. Airglow over Earth can be seen in the background.
Image Credit: NASA
I have run out of monitors for all these incredible "screensaver/wallpaper" NASA photos ...
Clint Bradford, K6LCS
This doesn't make any sense to me. It looks like a launch, not a descent. If the shuttle went down at that angle it would be toast.
I think they got their captions wrong?
--STeve Andre' wb8wsf en72
At 05:38 PM 7/25/2011 -0400, you wrote:
On 07/25/11 14:27, Clint Bradford wrote:
NASA PHOTO -
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/573236main_iss028e018218_full.jpg
This doesn't make any sense to me. It looks like a launch, not a descent. If the shuttle went down at that angle it would be toast.
I think they got their captions wrong?
--STeve
I thought that too until I took another look at it. This is a two dimensional view of three dimensional space, so things in the photo might give a different impression than what is described by it. The decent only looks step because the earth is a sphere and the orbiter's track in this view is away from the ISS.
73 KB7ADL
On 07/25/11 19:04, Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL wrote:
At 05:38 PM 7/25/2011 -0400, you wrote:
On 07/25/11 14:27, Clint Bradford wrote:
NASA PHOTO -
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/573236main_iss028e018218_full.jpg
This doesn't make any sense to me. It looks like a launch, not a descent. If the shuttle went down at that angle it would be toast.
I think they got their captions wrong?
--STeve
I thought that too until I took another look at it. This is a two dimensional view of three dimensional space, so things in the photo might give a different impression than what is described by it. The decent only looks step because the earth is a sphere and the orbiter's track in this view is away from the ISS.
73 KB7ADL
I'm struggling to 'get' this. It's certainly an interesting optical illusion, or whatever this kind of misleading effect is... Thanks, I'll ponder this!
--STeve Andre' wb8wsf en72
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