Earth’s atmospheric glow can be seen from the International Space Station

This excessive publicity {photograph} revealed Earth’s atmospheric glow towards the backdrop of a starry sky on this picture taken from the Worldwide House Station on Jan. 21, 2024. On the time, the orbital lab was 258 miles above the Pacific Ocean northeast of Papua New Guinea. The Nauka science module and Prichal docking module are seen at left.

For the reason that space station turned operational in November 2000, crew members have produced a whole lot of 1000’s of pictures of the land, oceans, and environment of Earth, and even of the moon by Crew Earth Observations. Their images of Earth file how the planet modifications over time resulting from human exercise and pure occasions.