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· Planeta Tierra · ISS007-E-10807 · Planet Earth ·

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· Planeta Tierra · Planet Earth · NASA Photo ID: ISS007-E-10807 Fecha · Date taken: 2003.07.21 · 21 julio 2003 Image Caption: ISS007-E-10807 (21 July 2003) --- This view of Earth’s horizon as the sunsets over the Pacific Ocean was taken by an Expedition 7 crewmember onboard the International Space Station (ISS). Anvil tops of thunderclouds are also visible. · Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth ·

· Orbiting Jupiter · Orbitando Júpiter ·

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· "Orbiting Jupiter" • "Orbitando Júpiter" · Crédito video • Video Credit & License: "NASA, Juno, SwRI, MSSS, Gerald Eichstadt, Sean Doran" "APOD 2017 June 7" https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170607.html "Orbiting Jupiter" "What would it be like to orbit Jupiter? The dramatic featured video depicts just this and was made from images taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft currently orbiting the Jovian giant. Juno recently completed its sixth pass near Jupiter during its looping elliptical six-week orbit. As the time-lapse video starts, alternating dark and light cloud bands passed underneath the spacecraft as it approaches Jupiter's South Pole. These clouds contain complex textures involving eddies, swirls, ovals, and extended clouds that are have no direct analog from Earth. As the spacecraft passes beneath Jupiter, new cloud patterns devoid of long bands emerge but are again rich with alien swirls and ovals. Ov...