NASA presented a picture of the International Space Station (ISS) against the backdrop of waning moon. The picture is placed on the official website of the Agency.
The image of the ISS looks like a small dark silhouette on the right from the center of the moon. Author picture – the photographer Bill Ingalls. According to NASA, he had 0.82 seconds in time to make the frame, while crossing the disk of the satellite station.
Ingalls said in an interview SpaceFlight Insider, that first of several attempts to make a similar picture, but they ended failure.
The picture was taken two days after the July 31 came the Blue Moon – a phenomenon so indicate when a full moon occurs twice in one month.
The station was repeatedly photographed against the backdrop of the moon. The most recent images of the previously made appeared June 30 – he published an amateur photographer Dylan O’Donnell (Dylan O’Donnell).
ISS in low Earth orbit moves at a speed of 7 kilometers per second, a complete revolution around the Earth it It commits in 90 minutes. At the station, there are six people: Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Gennady Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko, Japanese astronaut Kimia Yui and American astronauts Chell Lindgren and Scott Kelly.
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