2024-02-04 08:30:00
On January 21, 2024, the Danish astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA) took a photograph of Earth’s atmospheric glow from the International Space Station. The orbital laboratory was flying at an altitude of 415 kilometers northwest of Papua New Guinea, over the Pacific Ocean.
The oxygen and sodium band is located near the Kármán line, the border between the atmosphere and outer space, and has an altitude of approximately 110 to 140 kilometers.
In the image, chosen by NASA as “Image of the day”there is the Nauka module and the Prichal docking module on the left, located in the Russian segment of the station, according to NASA.
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What is an Earthglow?
Atmospheric glow or night glow is the emission of weak light emitted by a planetary atmosphere. This phenomenon ensures that the night sky is not completely dark, if it is the Earth’s atmosphere. In addition, it gives rise to self-illuminating gases and It has no relationship with sunspot activity or with Earth’s magnetism.
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