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Stunning Star Trails from the International Space Station

Edit Forbes 10 Jun 2016
Note how the star trails and the parallel lines on Earth get distorted by this effect. The green of the aurora is the same as the green from the airglow seen in other photos, only this is much more intense, spectacular and at a non-uniform elevation ... ....

UFOs Debunked? Former NASA Employee James Oberg Explains Away UFO Sighting Claims [Video]

Edit Inquisitr 08 Jun 2016
James Oberg, a former NASA employee, claims to offer explanations that debunk popular UFO sighting claims and conspiracy theories ... local time ... Kasher wrote at the time that the objects could be intelligently controlled spacecraft, “since the main object clearly accelerated and moved above the Earth’s airglow in the videotape” (Click here for a detailed discussion of the STS-48 UFO mystery ) ... The Inquisitr News ....

Expedition 47 Aboard the ISS (35 photos)

Edit The Atlantic 06 Jun 2016
airglow, stars, and sunlight, seen from low Earth orbit above southern Europe, looking northeast, on May 23, 2016. (NASA) ....

ISS Captures Astonishing Milky Way Image

Edit News Ledge 18 May 2016
NASA, this isn’t remotely fair to the grounded astrophotographers. There isn’t a better platform for incredible images than looking out the window aboard the International Space Station ... In the photo, you can see the darker clouds that represent an inner spiral arm of the Milky Way ... Lens artifacts were cleaned up, and areas were enhanced to show off the star field, the lightning flash, and Earth’s airglow ... ....

Watch a time-lapse video above the Earth from the International Space Station

Edit Syracuse 11 Apr 2016
See bright swaths of red known as airglow in this video captured by the International Space Station ... From NASA's website.. The Ionospheric Connection Explorer will study the frontier of space ... Contact Lauren Long. Email ... ....

International Space Station grabs wondrous view of Earth’s airglow

Edit The Washington Post 07 Apr 2016
  Our planet’s atmosphere emits faint light such that the sky everywhere never descends into total darkness regardless of the season or time of day. This light is known as airglow. NASA recently released a video showing airglow from the perspective of astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The airglow appears as the bright swaths […] ... ....

Space weather satellite ICON on course for summer 2017 launch (University of California - Berkeley)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Apr 2016
(Source. University of California - Berkeley) ... NASA image ... Its mission ... So we're building ICON to go and find out why,' he said. The ICON satellite will orbit above the upper atmosphere - higher than the International Space Station - to observe how interactions between terrestrial weather and the ionosphere create bright, shimmering patches of color called airglow, as well as other changes in the space environment ... RELATED INFORMATION....

The Science Of Earth's Airglow

Edit Forbes 18 Mar 2016
What is Airglow? Yep, let's start right there. It is something many people probably are not aware of at all. In fact, I first learned of it only 20 years ago as a scientist for NASA. I was inspired to feature it after seeing this amazing view of Earth posted [...] ... ....

Shooting for the stars

Edit China Daily 19 Feb 2016
'Universe Boy' wins photo honors from NASA, magazines and websites. Dai Jianfeng took four years to complete his transformation from automobile engineer to astronomy photographer ... A Japanese website even dubbed him "Universe Boy" in a story about his photos ... "Sometimes, you risk your life." ... The photo taken from the Tibetan Plateau showed gravity waves "revealed in a thin layer of glowing atmosphere called airglow" ... ....

Satellite Eye on Earth: January 2016 - in pictures

Edit The Guardian 09 Feb 2016
US snowstorms, Tasmanian bushfires and Arabian plankton blooms were among the images captured by European Space Agency and Nasa satellites last month ... “ A splash of #EarthArt over the #Bahamas! #YearInSpace.”. Twitter. Part of Sierra Leone in west Africa ... This image of the storm system was composed through the use of the VIIRS “day-night band,” which detects faint light signals such as city lights, moonlight, airglow, and auroras ... ....

Snowzilla’s East Coast Blast Captured as ‘Rare Thundersnow’ by Scott Kelly on Station and Moonlit ...

Edit Universe Today 26 Jan 2016
... 300 of his historic “1Year ISS Mission” aboard the outpost and is conducting hundreds of experiments aimed at paving the way for multi-year expeditions to the Red Planet.The Suomi NPP satellite image “was composed through the use of the VIIRS “day-night band,” which detects faint light signals such as city lights, moonlight, airglow, and auroras....

How to Photograph the Milky Way

Edit PetaPixel 16 Jan 2016
If you live in a remote area with dark skies, you are one of the lucky ones; the lucky ones that get to look up on a clear dark night and see a thick band of glowing light stretch across the sky ... Before We Start ... What You Will Need ... Where ... Additionally, in Blue and Black zones, you’ll get to see other interesting atmospheric phenomena like Zodiacal Light, Airglow and Gegenschein which will make for an added drop of colour in your images....

Missing Electrons in the Atmosphere Possibly Found

Edit Yahoo Daily News 30 Dec 2015
[Infographic ... [Quiz ... Electron sink ... The D-region ledge is not the only strange boundary in that portion of the atmosphere — the region between 50 and 62 miles (80 and 100 km) above the surface also has an "airglow" layer, caused by the sharp rise in the ionization of hydroxyl, as well as multiple sodium layers, said Steven Cummer, an electrical engineer at Duke University in North Carolina, who was not involved in the study....
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