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Sunset from the International Space Station

Sunset from the International Space Station
Sunset from the International Space Station An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) photographed this sunset that looks like a vast sheet of flame. Thin layers of lighter and darker blues reveal the many layers of the atmosphere above the lowest layer - the brown layer with its clouds and dust and smoke (known to scientists as the troposphere, the layer of weather as we experience it). NASA