This sunset shot, photographed by an Expedition 40 crew member on the International Space Station, shows polar mesospheric clouds only as a thin bright line — far above the lowest, yellow-brown weather layer of the atmosphere (known as the troposphere) when the space station was flying over southern Ukraine on Aug. 1, 2014.
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This sunset shot, photographed by an Expedition 40 crew member on the International Space Station, shows polar mesospheric clouds only as a thin bright line — far above the lowest, yellow-brown weather layer of the atmosphere (known as the troposphere) when the space station was flying over southern Ukraine on Aug. 1, 2014.