Jeffrey Williams, an astronaut from the International Space Station, was impressed by the beauty of the rising sun. Aboard the station can enjoy as many as 15 such phenomena within 24 hours. Find out for yourself how beautiful it looks from the perspective of the orbit of the planet.
Station ISS is located at an altitude of about 330 kilometers and orbits the Earth at a speed of 27,000 km / h. This means that during the day is able to perform 15 full circuit around the planet.
Before sunrise everything is black. You can not see the Earth, but is very close. With the first flashes of the Sun, which are extremely sharp, emerges our planet. The sun goes higher, the greater part of the earth illuminated. The sun’s rays fall on parts of the clouds, we can not see from the ground. It is the clouds block the solar radiation into subsurface layers of the atmosphere.
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