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You entered: Earth orbit
![Международная космическая станция проходит перед Солнцем](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/07/30/0001228961/isssun_wagner.preview.jpg)
30.07.2008
That's no sunspot. It's the International Space Station (ISS) caught by chance passing in front of the Sun. Sunspots, individually, have a dark central umbra, a lighter surrounding penumbra, and no solar panels.
![Астероиды вокруг Земли](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/04/18/0001205228/asteroids_hst.preview.jpg)
17.04.2005
Rocks from space hit Earth every day. The larger the rock, though, the less often Earth is struck. Many kilograms of space dust pitter to Earth daily. Larger bits appear initially as a bright meteor. Baseball-sized rocks and ice-balls streak through our atmosphere daily, most evaporating quickly to nothing.
![Астероиды вдалеке](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/03/07/0001250262/asteroidstreak_hst_900.preview.jpg)
6.03.2011
Rocks from space hit Earth every day. The larger the rock, though, the less often Earth is struck. Many kilograms of space dust pitter to Earth daily. Larger bits appear initially as a bright meteor. Baseball-sized rocks and ice-balls streak through our atmosphere daily, most evaporating quickly to nothing.
![Земля проходит мимо астероида Тутатис](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/20/0001191027/earth_toutatis_big.preview.gif)
20.01.1997
On November 29, 1996 the Earth came within 3.3 million miles of the asteroid Toutatis. Above is a computer simulated picture of this spectacle from the surface of Toutatis (a 2.5 degree field of view looking toward Earth). In Earth's sky, Toutatis appeared only as a faint object moving against a background of stars.
![Космическая станция пересекает Солнце без пятен](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2019/07/15/0001482912/SpotlessSunIss_Colacurcio_960.preview.jpg)
15.07.2019
That's no sunspot. It's the International Space Station (ISS) caught passing in front of the Sun. Sunspots, individually, have a dark central umbra, a lighter surrounding penumbra, and no solar panels. By contrast, the ISS is a complex and multi-spired mechanism, one of the largest and most sophisticated machines ever created by humanity.
![Зигзаг Марса](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/04/23/0001213567/Mars2005_6_tezel_c51.preview.jpg)
22.04.2006
This composite of images spaced about a week apart - from late July 2005 (bottom right) through February 2006 (top left) - traces the retrograde motion of ruddy-colored Mars through planet Earth's night sky. On November 7th, 2005 the Red Planet was opposite the Sun in Earth's sky (at opposition).
![Космическая станция, протуберанцы и Солнце](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2021/05/04/0001737728/IssSun_Ergun_960.preview.jpg)
4.05.2021
That's no sunspot. It's the International Space Station (ISS) caught passing in front of the Sun. Sunspots, individually, have a dark central umbra, a lighter surrounding penumbra, and no Dragon capsules attached.
![Противостояние Марса в 2016 году](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/08/11/0001367225/mars.preview.jpg)
9.08.2016
When does Mars appear the largest? This occurs when Earth sweeps past Mars in their respective orbits around the Sun, creating a momentary Sun-Earth-Mars alignment called opposition. The featured video shows the Mars opposition that occurred earlier this year. All of the images were taken from Earth with a small telescope.
![Артемида-1: 13-й день полета](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2022/12/01/0001859986/art001e000672-orig1024c.preview.jpg)
1.12.2022
On flight day 13 (November 28) of the Artemis 1 mission the Orion spacecraft reached its maximum distance from Earth. In fact, over 430,000 kilometers from Earth its distant retrograde orbit also put Orion nearly 70,000 kilometers from the Moon.
![Космическая станция, протуберанцы и Солнце](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/11/19/0001912517/IssSun_Ergun_960.preview.jpg)
19.11.2023
That's no sunspot. It's the International Space Station (ISS) caught passing in front of the Sun. Sunspots, individually, have a dark central umbra, a lighter surrounding penumbra, and no Dragon capsules attached.
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