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Keywords: space shuttle, space station, Earth's atmosphere
![Свободный полет в космосе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2020/02/09/0001609643/freeflyer_nasa_960.preview.jpg)
8.02.2020
What would it be like to fly free in space? At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II was living the dream -- floating farther out than anyone had ever been before. Guided by a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), astronaut McCandless, pictured, was floating free in space.
![Аэрозоли на Земле](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2020/04/18/0001643498/atmosphere_geo5_2018235_eq1200.preview.jpg)
17.04.2020
It was just another day on aerosol Earth. For August 23, 2018, the identification and distribution of aerosols in the Earth's atmosphere is shown in this dramatic, planet-wide digital visualization. Produced in real...
![Планета Земля в сумерках](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2020/04/22/0001644709/ISS002-E-7377_1024c.preview.jpg)
21.04.2020
No sudden, sharp boundary marks the passage of day into night in this gorgeous view of ocean and clouds over our fair planet Earth. Instead, the shadow line or terminator is diffuse and shows the gradual transition to darkness we experience as twilight.
21.04.2021
No sudden, sharp boundary marks the passage of day into night in this gorgeous view of ocean and clouds over our fair planet Earth. Instead, the shadow line or terminator is diffuse and shows the gradual transition to darkness we experience as twilight.
![Тень следа ракеты направлена к Луне](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2024/02/11/0001920362/sts98plume_nasa_960.preview.jpg)
10.02.2024
Why would the shadow of a rocket's launch plume point toward the Moon? In early 2001 during a launch of the space shuttle Atlantis, the Sun, Earth, Moon, and rocket were all properly aligned for this photogenic coincidence.
![Космические станции на низкой околоземной орбите](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/01/07/0001869238/ISS_TIANHE_FINAL_4_APOD1024.preview.jpg)
6.01.2023
On January 3, two space stations already illuminated by sunlight in low Earth orbit crossed this dark predawn sky. Moving west to east (left to right) across the composited timelapse image China's Tiangong Space Station traced the upper trail captured more than an hour before the local sunrise.
![Свободный полет в космосе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/05/14/0001897679/freeflyer_nasa_960.preview.jpg)
13.05.2023
What would it be like to fly free in space? At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II was living the dream -- floating farther out than anyone had ever been before. Guided by a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), astronaut McCandless, pictured, was floating free in space.
![Свободный полет в космосе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/12/31/0001395556/freeflyer_nasa_960.preview.jpg)
30.12.2017
What would it be like to fly free in space? At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II was living the dream -- floating farther out than anyone had ever been before. Guided by a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), astronaut McCandless, pictured, was floating free in space.
![Космический интерьер](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/01/23/0001331103/15618296264_21bc1e368e_o1024.preview.jpg)
22.01.2015
Some prefer windows, and these are the best available on board the International Space Station. Taken on January 4, this snapshot from inside the station's large, seven-window Cupola module also shows off a workstation for controlling Canadarm2.
![Равная ночь](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/21/0001163929/sun_sts68_big.preview.jpg)
23.09.2000
Yesterday the Sun crossed the celestial equator heading south, marking the Equinox -- the first day of Autumn in the northern hemisphere and Spring in the south. Equinox means equal night and with the Sun on the celestial equator, Earthlings will experience 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness.
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