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Posts by Malcolm Strachan

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
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Remembering Hans Stuck, father of Hans-Joachim Stuck, born #OnThisDay in 1900. A pre-WW2 GP winner, he was better known as a Bergkönig (king of the mountains) as this wonderful pic of him winning the ’36 Shelsley Walsh hillclimb in an Auto Union C illustrates perfectly.

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#AnorakFact: 6 drivers born before 1900 competed in #F1: Philippe Étancelin (born #OnThisDay in 1896), Arthur Legat (1898), Clemente Biondetti (1898), Luigi Fagioli (1898), Adolf Brudes (1899) & Louis Chiron (1899). Pic: Étancelin, #InternationalTouristTrophy, Donington, ’38.

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