Wednesday, May 19, 2010

ISS-Atlantis transit over Sun

Image of the solar transit of the International Space Station (ISS) and Space Shuttle Atlantis 50 minutes before docking, taken from the area of Madrid (Spain) on May 16th 2010 at 13h 28min 55s UT.




Photolink via : Discover blogs and Thierry Legault

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Posted by Garima at 1:21 AM
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5 comments:

  1. GarimaMay 19, 2010 at 1:42 AM

    Though the enlarged image looks like it has been fabricated but then I am no expert on such stuff. Will the knowledgeable ones please enlighten us? :)

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  2. Rahul TyagiMay 19, 2010 at 3:07 AM

    why do you think it is fabricated? Looks fine to me. Exactly like all these images of ISS/shuttle transiting the Sun normally look.

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  3. GarimaMay 19, 2010 at 4:10 AM

    I only thought so because in the enlarged image the ISS picture looked more like a sketch...but then again, I have not seen many such pictures, therefore the puzzlement.

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  4. Sooper SlackerMay 28, 2010 at 8:10 AM

    Nice pic! Looks like an ant crawling on a lemon! :)

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  5. Rahul TyagiMay 28, 2010 at 11:20 AM

    also, considering that the ant is about 50000 times closer than the lemon, it is a REALLY large lemon. it always fascinates me to see these pics. because I imagine, the size of the shuttle and then imagine that size to be so far away that it looks like this and THEN imagine sun to be 50000 times behind it... it blows my mind, every single time. :D

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