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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

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That's no sunspot. On the upper right of the above image of the Sun, the dark patches are actually the International Space Station (ISS) and the Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-132...(click for larger)

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This is a link to a NASA page which will let you know when and where you should look to see the ISS fly overhead.

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/skywatch.cgi?country=United+States

I've seen it twice. It's a bright light, no flashing lights. You would think it's a passing airplane. It appears to move as fast as an airplane 6 miles above, but it's about 200 miles over head, so it's moving really fast.

Cool. Didn't know the space station (in relation to the shuttle) was so large.

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