Moonset, viewed from the Space Station. This NASA website offers a streaming quicktime movie of our moon setting on the horizon, as viewed from the International Space Station. The moon turns into a squashy, pink pancake as it sets, and this science primer explains why. Link to article, Link to movie, Discuss
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Something fun to end the day. Appropriate in part because my youngest boy and I are about to start work on a model of the ISS.

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