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File:Endeavour silhouette STS-130.jpg

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English: Though astronauts and cosmonauts often encounter striking scenes of Earth's limb, this unique image, part of a series over Earth's colorful horizon, has the added feature of a silhouette of the space shuttle Endeavour. The image was photographed by an Expedition 22 crew member prior to STS-130 rendezvous and docking operations with the International Space Station. Docking occurred at 11:06 p.m. (CST) on Feb. 9, 2010. The orbital outpost was at 46.9 south latitude and 80.5 west longitude, over the South Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern Chile, with an altitude of 183 nautical miles when the image was recorded. The orange layer is the troposphere, where all of the weather and clouds which we typically watch and experience are generated and contained. This orange layer gives way to the whitish Stratosphere and then into the Mesosphere. In some frames the black colour is part of a window frame rather than the blackness of space.
Date 9 February 2010
Source http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-130/html/iss022e062672.html
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Author NASA/Crew of Expedition 22
Shuttle.svg This image or video was catalogued by Johnson Space Centre of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: ISS022-E-062672.
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English: The silhouette of space shuttle Endeavour seen against Earth's colorful horizon during shuttle mission STS-130
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Camera manufacturer NIKON CORPORATION
Camera model NIKON D3X
Exposure time 1/30 sec (0.033333333333333)
F-number f/5.6
ISO speed rating 200
Date and time of data generation 03:04, 10 February 2010
Lens focal length 550 mm
Orientation Normal
Horizontal resolution 240 dpi
Vertical resolution 240 dpi
Software used Adobe Photoshop CS4 Windows
File change date and time 19:20, 11 February 2010
Exposure Program Aperture priority
Exif version 2.21
Date and time of digitizing 03:04, 10 February 2010
Shutter speed 4.906891
APEX aperture 4.970854
Exposure bias 0
Maximum land aperture 5 APEX (f/5.66)
Metering mode Pattern
Light source Unknown
Flash Flash did not fire
DateTime subseconds 16
DateTimeOriginal subseconds 16
DateTimeDigitized subseconds 16
Colour space sRGB
Sensing method One-chip colour area sensor
File source Digital still camera
Scene type A directly photographed image
Custom image processing Normal process
Exposure mode Auto exposure
White balance Auto white balance
Digital zoom ratio 1
Focal length in 35 mm film 550 mm
Scene capture type Standard
Scene control None
Contrast Normal
Saturation Normal
Sharpness Normal
Subject distance range Unknown

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