NASA Releases Picture Of Waxing Crescent Moon But Colourful Atmosphere Steals The Show
The “waxing crescent moon” was just captured beautifully by NASA’s International Space Station. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reported that the image was taken on September 30, 2022, when the International Space Station (ISS) was orbiting 267 miles (429 km) above the Atlantic Ocean southwest of South Africa during an orbital sunrise.
The image includes a waxing crescent moon and a beautiful series of colors that, broadly speaking, represent several atmospheric strata. According to NASA, this edge-on perspective of Earth gives us a glimpse inside the layers of our vibrant atmosphere. Above the black limb of the Earth’s surface, at the bottom, is the troposphere (orange). The air we breathe and the clouds in the sky are included in this layer, which we refer to as home.
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