[Chaos-l] A Cool Picture

Terry Crook terrycrook at earthlink.net
Thu Jul 21 17:55:27 EDT 2011


I like #3!  Hadn't tho't of that. :-D

Taurus Terry in Chapel Hill
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On 7/21/2011 5:37 PM, walter fowler wrote:
> 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 <mailto:robertnielsen at nc.rr.com>> wrote:
>
>     Wish I was there to see this:
>
>     http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2014.html
>
>     Robert
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