Title

Space Shuttle Endeavour over Earth, c2010. Creator: NASA.

Caption

Space Shuttle Endeavour over Earth, c2010. Though astronauts and cosmonauts often encounter striking scenes of Earth's limb, this very unique image, part of a series over Earth's colorful horizon, has the added feature of a silhouette of the space shuttle Endeavour. 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 color is part of a window frame rather than the blackness of space.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Space

Reference

HRM21B20_272

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

69,7Mb (1,0Mb) / 20,2in x 13,4in / 6048 x 4030 (300dpi)

Keywords

country space exploration space shuttle color horizon atmosphere location century concept spacecraft 21st century space exploration space travel NASA United States of America Colour Space Shuttle Endeavour American America USA stratosphere photograph united states National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2010s Heritage Space mesosphere troposphere