Explanation: The dark shadow of the New Moon reached out and touched planet Earth on June 21. A high definition camera outside the International Space Station captured its passing in this snapshot from low Earth orbit near the border of Kazakhstan and China. Of course those along the Moon's central shadow track below could watch the much anticipated annular eclipse of the Sun. In the foreground a cargo spacecraft is docked with the orbital outpost. It's the H-II Transfer Vehicle-9 from JAXA the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
You can clearly distinguish the Ayakkum Lake (left bottom) and Aqqikkol Lake (right bottom) in China. Nice!
Re: APOD: Eclipse under the ISS (2020 Jun 27)
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 11:18 am
by orin stepanek
The cargo capsule when empty gets destroyed on reentry with the debris falling into the Pacific! according to wikipedia! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-II_Transfer_Vehicle! (We keep using the ocean as a giant garbage dump!)
Re: what landmarks?
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 11:20 am
by GeoXXXXX
jcjlf wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 11:04 am
You can clearly distinguish the Ayakkum Lake (left bottom) and Aqqikkol Lake (right bottom) in China. Nice!
I just spent the better part of an hour searching on google earth to find out what those lakes were! If only I had just read the discussion! Doh!
I did find the little lake on top is Beile Kekule for what it’s worth
Eric
Re: APOD: Eclipse under the ISS (2020 Jun 27)
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 2:33 pm
by Chris Peterson
orin stepanek wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 11:18 am
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The cargo capsule when empty gets destroyed on reentry with the debris falling into the Pacific! according to wikipedia! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-II_Transfer_Vehicle! (We keep using the ocean as a giant garbage dump!) :shock: 😢
The vast majority of the craft burns up in the atmosphere. What little survives to the sea is just harmless metal bits... dropped in the ocean, that's really little more than a form of recycling. We do use the seas as garbage dumps, both deliberately and accidentally. But material from space isn't ever going to be a problem.
orin stepanek wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 11:18 am
The cargo capsule when empty gets destroyed on reentry with the debris falling into the Pacific! according to wikipedia! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-II_Transfer_Vehicle! (We keep using the ocean as a giant garbage dump!)
The vast majority of the craft burns up in the atmosphere. What little survives to the sea is just harmless metal bits... dropped in the ocean, that's really little more than a form of recycling. We do use the seas as garbage dumps, both deliberately and accidentally. But material from space isn't ever going to be a problem.
Eclipse under the ISS
