This NASA image of a Perseid meteor was photographed from the ISS. Most shooting stars are spotted from the earth as bright streaks against a black star-studded background. This is an exciting development in the field of astronomy - or should it be called Earthomotory. I think I'll bag that one and use it in one of my books.
NASA have put a lovely video together to describing how this picture came about:
I love the image of Arcturus shining through the green airglow of the post solar excited atmosphere at night.
I often wonder how much damage a pea of 1cm would do to the ISS if it struck at 211,000 km/h.
Star Quark Enterprises have strict rules on no-fly zones in the vicinity of planets populated by intelligent life. The last thing they would want to be held responsible for is left over dinner bits wrecking expensive space technology equipment and holding a civilisation back from becoming full members of the intergalactic community.
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