International Space Station Spacewalk Picture Shows Sun And Earth Together (PHOTO)

Here's something you don't see everyday: the sun and the Earth, in the same picture.

It's Tuesday's Image of the Day from NASA, taken with a fish-eye lens from the International Space Station during a spacewalk in May of this year.

The immediate future of the International Space Station is uncertain. The August 24th crash of an unmanned Russian Soyuz rocket carrying food and supplies to the ISS put future Soyuz missions on hold temporarily. (With the end of the NASA's Space Shuttle program in July, Soyuz rockets are now the only way to get to the ISS.)

On Friday, three members of the International Space Station's crew of six are scheduled to return to Earth. The remaining three are scheduled to return in mid-November.

The Associated Press reports that the next manned launch to the ISS will be on November 12, just days before the remaining crew is scheduled to depart. But if that mission is delayed, the ISS may have to be temporarily abandoned in mid-November until more astronauts arrive.

"The Brightness of the Sun":

Comments

[Garudastan]

12:43 AM on 09/17/2011

Let me be the first to say it. What crappy quality picture.

[Garudastan]

12:40 AM on 09/17/2011

A lot of junk in the view of the photo.

[bluegnu63]

01:33 AM on 09/14/2011

Gorgeous! And, the sun really looks like the star that it is.:)

[Pixiesnix]

01:19 AM on 09/14/2011

Well, there goes my earth/sun "never see them in the same place at the same time" conspiracy theory...

[sirtj228]

09:57 PM on 09/13/2011

Still bugged about the empty black space they show in the back grounds and no its not the cameras from the 70', the camera cant pick up the back ground stars...LOL...Cameras can clearly pick up objects in the back ground, most cosmonauts took tons of pictures and video out the windows....Just youtube tether experiment, there is tons of stuff floating out there, and seeing that video would make it clear why Nase does not to live space footage on TV anymore...ITs all BS

[leo moon]

11:54 PM on 09/13/2011

Your point is what, now?

[dethburger]

01:32 AM on 09/14/2011

sad

[harleyatl]

09:46 PM on 09/13/2011

Wow! That's Amazing!, Why, it's like they were both in the same solar system!!!!
:)

[ellwood145]

09:33 PM on 09/13/2011

Time is a myth and death is but a dream.

[JamesSin]

08:30 PM on 09/13/2011

Nevertheless, it moves

[sejs105]

07:54 PM on 09/13/2011

What a fascinating photograph. The clarity is remarkable.

[aaldrew]

06:29 PM on 09/13/2011

This pic is photo shopped. everyone knows the earth is flat....
!!!

[bickelx2]

10:20 PM on 09/13/2011

The bible in the creation story in Genesis says the Earth is flat and the Sun, Moon , and stars are on a dome covering the flat earth. This was the basis of the early Catholic Church calling all who believed otherwise heritics. Today's Christian Fundamentalists over look this fact and Astronaut Frank Borman omited all mention of it when he read from Genesis after circling the Moon.

[familypaladin]

10:42 PM on 09/13/2011

Please provide a text reference for your claim in regards to Genesis?

[knezrad]

02:45 AM on 09/14/2011

Actually the first guy to say the earth moved around the sun was a Catholic priest, Nicolas Copernicus, and his theory was not called heresy until the Protestants complained about it even after Magellan proved the world was round. At that, Galileo got house arrest for maintining wehat he saw in telescopes was "proven" as opposed to calling it theoretical until it could be proven, while those holding to the Copernican theory in Germany England or Scandinavia as heretics could be burned at stakes or beheaded for doing that. We do not know what a 'scientific' atheistical regime would have done in those times but most likely they would have been even sterner in their punishment of heterodoxy...witness the screams met with when calling Darwinian theory either evolutionary or social as just that, not inspired dogma. Just imagine, a silver-nosed Inquisitor in Tycho Brahe, er, sniffing out Copernican heretics who abjured the Ptolemaic system![and we still do not know what glue he used to make it stick on!]

[PleaseNoPolitics]

05:03 PM on 09/13/2011

I actually got a fear of heights when I looked at this picture..

Once my legs stopped shaking, my jaw dropped at the magnificence

[JackTheSkipper]

08:17 PM on 09/13/2011

I, too, have fear of heights but for some odd reasons I don't have the fear at this height. If you put me on top of the sears tower, I will block out watching the tiny cars down below.

[JackTheSkipper]

08:30 PM on 09/13/2011

block out = blackout

[bluegnu63]

01:36 AM on 09/14/2011

Cute Cav avatar.:)

[ipbron]

04:38 PM on 09/13/2011

Amazing photo I always love when we see new viewpoints of our earth

[frank day]

04:06 PM on 09/13/2011

Good thing we have an atmosphere.

Hope we can keep it.

[Dosadi]

05:51 PM on 09/13/2011

It will be privatized within 20 years if a certain political party has its way.  I wonder how much the rich folks will charge us for using it.

[Gerald Larkin]

09:47 PM on 09/13/2011

Because everything is politics, right? Sheesh. Stop looking for stuff to be bitter about.

[soopershrink]

01:41 AM on 09/14/2011

Not if the Teapublicans have their way, they want to scrap the EPA !

[Rude Monk]

03:47 PM on 09/13/2011

Another "feel good" pic of the station from the PR department of nasa.
Did you get the last bit where they're asking us for more money or they will "abandon" the ISS?
What about the thousands of other photos you're keeping locked up?
Pictures of the dark side of the moon or those taken by the Voyager and Pioneer probes.
By the way,the Sun doesn't look like that in space,it's black.A picture taken from behind the magnetic shield means nothing.

[bohol2528]

03:54 PM on 09/13/2011

I think your behind on your meds. Smoke a joint and chill.

[frank day]

04:07 PM on 09/13/2011

They have to keep the Transformers hidden. Shhhhh!!!!!!!!

[cragusa]

03:29 PM on 09/13/2011

It must be a govenmint consirocy. good people know the earth is flat. they must have fotoshoped it, just like the moon landin!