File:Atlantis launch plume edit.jpg
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current | 01:12, 7 January 2017 | 1,539 × 2,200 (223 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <b>Shuttle Launch at Sunset</b> (Atlantis, February 7th, 2001, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/STS-98" title="STS-98">STS-98</a>). The sun has set just behind the camera, so only the upper part of the plume is in the glare of the sun. It casts a <b>shadow</b> through the Earth's atmosphere that seems to stretch towards the moon, which is nearly full and thus almost exactly opposite the sun in the sky. The <b>Earth's shadow</b> is also visible, as a dark band of sky below the Moon. |
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