I spotted this serenely beautiful photo of the crescent moon rising above the limb of the Earth at sunrise on Twitter. I was so taken with it that I just had to share it.
Moonrise at Sunrise from the International Space Station
Seen from this perspective, the atmosphere doesn’t seem as limitless as from Earth’s surface
NASA astronaut Christina Koch shot this image of moonrise at sunrise from the International Space Station. (Source: Christina Koch/NASA via Twitter)
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