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Astronaut Photography of Earth - Display RecordSTS097-354-36Low-resolution Browse Image(Most browse images are not color adjusted.)ImagesConditions for Use of Images >>Image Transformation Tutorial >> Saving, Color Adjusting, and Printing Images >> Images to View on Your Computer Now
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Download a Keyhole Markup Language (KML) file for use in Google Earth. Electronic Image DataCamera files only apply to electronic still cameras.No sound file available. IdentificationMission: STS097 Roll: 354 Frame: 36 Mission ID on the Film or image: STS97Country or Geographic Name: AURORA Features: AURORA BOREALIS Center Point Latitude: Center Point Longitude: (Negative numbers indicate south for latitude and west for longitude) Stereo: (Yes indicates there is an adjacent picture of the same area) ONC Map ID: JNC Map ID: CameraCamera Tilt: High ObliqueCamera Focal Length: mm Camera: NK: Nikon 35mm film camera Film: FJ800 : Fuji color negative, 35mm, ASA 800. QualityFilm Exposure:Percentage of Cloud Cover: (0-10) NadirDate: 20001211 (YYYYMMDD)GMT Time: 000638 (HHMMSS)Nadir Point Latitude: 49.9, Longitude: -50.6 (Negative numbers indicate south for latitude and west for longitude) Nadir to Photo Center Direction: Sun Azimuth: 288 (Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point) Spacecraft Altitude: 190 nautical miles (352 km) Sun Elevation Angle: -45 (Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point) Orbit Number: 156 CaptionsAstronauts aboard the STS-97 Space Shuttle mission in December observed and photographed the northern lights after undocking from the International Space Station. This image was taken on December 11, 2000. At the time, the Shuttle was just east of Newfoundland at 49.7N 51.6 W, at an altitude of 362 km. The image view is to the north (Polaris, the North Star, is visible), and shows two separate atmospheric optical phenomena. The faint, thin greenish band stretching across and above the horizon is airglow; radiation emitted by the atmosphere from a layer about 30 km thick and about 100 km altitude. The predominant emission in airglow is the green 5577 Angstrom wavelength emission from oxygen atoms. Airglow is always and everywhere present in the atmosphere; it results from the recombination of molecules that have been broken apart by solar radiation during the day. But the phenomenon is so faint that it can only be seen at night by looking "edge on" at the emission layer, such as the view astronauts have in orbit. Astronaut Tom Jones gives a nice astronaut perspective of airglow on the web athttp://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/redirect?http://neurolab.jsc.nasa.gov/jones.htm The other phenomenon in the photo (the green blob to the left of center) is the aurora. Green aurora occur from about 100 km to 250 km altitude only in the auroral zones at polar latitudes. They are also caused by the emission of 5577 Angstrom wavelength light from oxygen atoms that have been raised to a higher energy level (excited) by collisions with energetic electrons pouring down from the Earth's magnetosphere. The light is emitted when the atoms return to their original unexcited state. Download Packaged File. This option downloads the following items, packaged into a single file, if they are available:
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