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Credit & Copyright: Patrick Vantuyne
Explanation:
Get out your
red-blue glasses
and float next to the
International Space Station
(ISS), planet Earth's largest artificial moon.
This breathtaking stereo view was constructed from two separate
images
(S114-E-7245,
S114-E-7246)
recorded as the shuttle
orbiter Discovery undocked from the ISS
on August 6.
As seen here,
the ISS is around 27 meters (90 feet) tall.
The span from the automated
Progress supply ship docked in the
foreground to the
Destiny module hidden behind the
station structure is about 52 meters (171 feet) long, while the full
reach of the solar arrays across the top would cover about
73 meters (240 feet).
Resupplied by Discovery, the ISS is currently operated by
the two member
Expedition 11 crew,
Sergei Krikalev and John Phillips.
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& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: ISS - space shuttle Discovery
Publications with words: ISS - space shuttle Discovery
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