The photograph was taken aboard the International Space Station. The image is from NASA's Earth Observatory.
An astronauts aboard the International Space Station has captured a picture of a crescent moon above Earth as the last light of the setting sun illuminates the atmosphere.
The photo was taken by an unnamed member of the crew of the International Space Station, which included seven astronauts from NASA, the European Space Agency, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Russia's State Space Corporation. The image was taken using a digital camera as the ISS passed over the Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand.
The photo was released by NASA. Earth Observatory representatives said in a statement that the view offers a symbolic end to the year and a look at NASA's next goal for human-crewed exploration.
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The photo shows a sunset that fades from orange to dark blue at the edge of space. The first four layers of the atmosphere are the troposphere, the stratosphere, the mesosphere and the thermoosphere.
The colors are caused by a phenomenon called Rayleigh scattering, named after a British physicist. The particles smaller than the wavelength of the visible light scatter it. The light that we see is scattered. Each layer of the atmosphere has a density of gas particles that are different from each other.
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