... Explanation: Thursday, shortly after local sunrise over central Asia, this Soyuz spacecraft floated over a sea of golden clouds during its descent by parachute through planet Earth's dense atmosphere. ...
... Explanation: In December of 1990, the Space Shuttle Columbia carried an array of astronomical telescopes high above the Earth's obscuring atmosphere to observe the Universe at ultraviolet and x-ray wavelengths. ...
... Explanation: Orion's belt runs just along the horizon, seen through Earth'satmosphere and rising in this starry snapshot from low Earth orbit on board the International Space Station . ...
... Of course, the reddened light is due to scattering in planet Earth'satmosphere and the rare transit of Venus didn't influence the strangely shaped and distorted Sun. ...
... That small spot moving in front of background stars in the above video is a potentially dangerous asteroid passing above the Earth'satmosphere. ...
... Called shadow cones, they are visible because the Earth'satmosphere is not completely transparent, scattering sunlight and hence appearing blue during the day. ...
... Dust particles strung out along the orbit of extinct comet Phaethon vaporize when they plow through planet Earth'satmosphere causing the impressive display. ...
... As our Earth passes unusually close to debris expelled from Comet Tempel-Tuttle , many sand-sized particles from this comet are entering and burning up in the Earth'satmosphere. ...