A streak of light in the winter sky
12 Dec 2016
A streak of light in the winter sky—not a shooting star, not a jetliner condensation trail glowing in the dark but ... the International Space Station (ISS) flying high over the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ worksite.
In one single image, the two largest international scientific collaborations ever established are captured: on the ground, the seven-Member, 35-nation ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ collaboration; and 400 kilometres overhead a project bringing together the American, Russian, Japanese, European and Canadian space agencies.
The best time to the bright, slow-moving dot that is the ISS is in the hours after sunset and before sunrise—when the station remains sunlit, but the ground and sky are dark. This long-exposure photograph was taken at 6:07 p.m. on Thursday 8 December.
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