{"id":234715,"date":"2025-09-17T20:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/234715\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T20:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:58:11","slug":"how-to-see-the-planet-from-above-and-below","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/234715\/","title":{"rendered":"How to see the planet from above and below"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sometimes the universe went easy on them. A comet<\/a>, visiting from the edges of the solar system, showed up a week after Pettit reached orbit. Tafreshi observed the bright object in Puerto Rico<\/a>, but Pettit \u201chad the best view,\u201d without Earth\u2019s hazy atmosphere, with its pesky clouds, in the way. Not long after that, a major aurora storm appeared in the skies over Tafreshi\u2019s house\u2014how convenient!\u2014and the photographers captured the event within hours of each other, their best timing of the entire endeavor. When it comes to the rippling, mystical green lights<\/a>, two views are better than one. \u201cIf you look at the same ripple from orbit, you might find that it\u2019s actually an oval,\u201d Pettit said. It\u2019s as if they had surrounded the shimmering phenomenon, revealing its true nature. \u00a0<\/p>\n

While Pettit was spared the difficulties that can ruin a photographer\u2019s day on the ground\u2014rainy weather, for example\u2014his cameras would occasionally malfunction because of the constant, invisible barrage of cosmic radiation<\/a>, and now and again artifacts of astronaut life sneaked into his shots. Once, Tafreshi was scanning Pettit\u2019s images of the Maldives<\/a>, in the Indian Ocean, when he noticed an intriguing patch of green in the water\u2014an algal bloom<\/a>? \u201cI was so excited until I got the next few shots and I realized, This patch is moving very fast,\u201d Tafreshi said. It turned out to be a weight-lifting machine, reflected in the space station\u2019s windows. \u201cEvery crew member works out on this machine for an hour and a half a day,\u201d Pettit said. He would occasionally ask his colleagues if they wouldn\u2019t mind turning off the lights and working out in the dark, just for a few minutes. Not everyone obliged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes the universe went easy on them. A comet, visiting from the edges of the solar system, showed…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":234716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,1033,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-234715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115221647205914781","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}