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Part of Vostok-1 spacecraft control panel.
Source: Wikimedia commons, File: Vostokpanel.JPG, High-res
Part of the Hawaiian Island Chain (7 Oct. 2010)
While on an orbit that took the International Space Station over the Pacific Ocean, one of the Expedition 25 crew members captured this image of part of the Hawaiian Island chain. While most of the islands are covered by clouds, Hawaii, the largest of them, is visible at lower center. A Russian Soyuz (foreground) and a Russian Progress vehicle are docked to the massive space station.
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Clouds over the Pacific viewed from Space Shuttle.
Credits: NASA
Source: The Campaign for Berkeley and the Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley.
“What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth…. The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots…. When I watched the horizon, I saw the abrupt, contrasting transition from the earth’s light-colored surface to the absolutely black sky. I enjoyed the rich color spectrum of the earth. It is surrounded by a light blue aureole that gradually darkens, becoming turquiose, dark blue, violet, and finally coal black.”
51 years ago Yuri Gagarin completed an orbit of the Earth. So today is the Cosmonautics Day in Russia and some other former USSR countries… And by the way also here in Science is Beauty.