[Chaos-l] Fwd: A Cool Picture

[walter fowler]

Or the skeptic's favorite - there were no shuttles.  All these pictures are
done on a black set in a movie lot in California, the same one where the
"moon landings" were filmed.

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From: walter fowler <walterfowler at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Chaos-l] A Cool Picture
To: robertnielsen at nc.rr.com
Cc: Chapel Hill Astronomical Observation Society <chaos-l at rtpnet.org>


Why is the shuttle glow so bright at the highest altitude and it fades as it
descends (presumably heating up on the way down)?  Is it because
1. it's going from sunlight into the Earth's shadow
2. it's just brighter when it's closer to the ISS
3. they turn all the lights off when they start their descent
4. someone used Photoshop to  "get the best results."
Other thoughts?    Walter


On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Robert Nielsen <robertnielsen at nc.rr.com>wrote:

> Wish I was there to see this:
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> http://www.nasa.gov/**multimedia/imagegallery/image_**feature_2014.html<http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2014.html>
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