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Credit & Copyright: NASA,
STS-47 Crew.
Explanation:
Sunrise seen from low Earth
orbit by the shuttle astronauts
can be very dramatic indeed (and the authors apologize to
Hemingway for using his title!).
In this breathtaking view, the Sun is
just visible peaking over towering anvil shaped
storm clouds whose silhouetted tops mark the upper boundary of
the troposphere, the lowest layer of
planet Earth's atmosphere.
Sunlight filtering through suspended dust causes
this dense layer of air to appear red.
In contrast, the blue stripe marks the stratosphere, the tenuous
upper atmosphere, which preferentially scatters blue light.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Sun
Publications with words: Sun
See also:
- APOD: 2024 September 2 Á A Triangular Prominence Hovers Over the Sun
- APOD: 2024 August 18 Á A Solar Prominence Eruption from SDO
- APOD: 2024 August 4 Á Gaia: Here Comes the Sun
- APOD: 2024 July 28 Á Sun Dance
- Prominences and Filaments on the Active Sun
- APOD: 2024 May 28 Á Solar X Flare as Famous Active Region Returns
- APOD: 2024 May 26 Á A Solar Filament Erupts