And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sun light is coming from the right. The brightness along the curvature of the earth is the atmospheric limb. At that region we are looking at the atmosphere at a sharp angle, so from our perspective it is thicker. There are more atmospheric molecules reflecting light, which makes it a bright fuzzy arc. It’s visible in a lot of photos of Earth (and other planets).
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ReplyDeleteI'd just stare during the entire EVA. Didn't they use to allow some time for a guy on his first walk to just look? Do they still schedule for that?
ReplyDeleteWhy is the sunlight on the earth from the top left of the image, but the sunlight on the astronaut is from the bottom right.
ReplyDeleteSun light is coming from the right. The brightness along the curvature of the earth is the atmospheric limb. At that region we are looking at the atmosphere at a sharp angle, so from our perspective it is thicker. There are more atmospheric molecules reflecting light, which makes it a bright fuzzy arc. It’s visible in a lot of photos of Earth (and other planets).
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