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Credit & Copyright: NASA,
STS-47 Crew.
Explanation:
Sunrise seen from low Earth
orbit by the shuttle astronauts
can be very dramatic indeed (and the authors apologize to
Hemingway for using his title!).
In this breathtaking view, the Sun is
just visible peaking over towering anvil shaped
storm clouds whose silhouetted tops mark the upper boundary of
the troposphere, the lowest layer of
planet Earth's atmosphere.
Sunlight filtering through suspended dust causes
this dense layer of air to appear red.
In contrast, the blue stripe marks the stratosphere, the tenuous
upper atmosphere, which preferentially scatters blue light.
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See also:
- APOD: 2024 February 19 Á Looking Sideways from the Parker Solar Probe
- Circling the Sun
- APOD: 2023 December 11 Á Solar Minimum versus Solar Maximum
- APOD: 2023 November 19 Á Space Station, Solar Prominences, Sun
- APOD: 2023 October 25 Á Gone in 60 Seconds: A Green Flash Sunset
- Circular Sun Halo
- APOD: 2023 August 1 Á Monster Solar Prominence