I love me some atmosphere
The limb of the Earth is a work of awesome beauty and a gift to science
When observed from space, the palette of gaseous layers of atmosphere reminds us of the fragility and tenuousness of the cocoon that shelters life from cold, harsh space.
That same view also allows scientists to detect the gases and particles that make up our the different layers of our atmosphere.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured a bit of both in this digital photograph from July 31. They threw in the Moon as an extra gift.
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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.
