The U.S. space Agency (NASA) has released the original picture. This time the international space station (ISS) captured in the Sun.
A photo of the transit of the International space station (ISS) against the disc of the Sun has published a NASA website. The image is a collage of 5 frames produced alternately at different location of the ISS on the solar disk. This image demonstrates what trajectory the station crossed the disk of the star.
The speed of the ISS at this time was approximately 8 km per second. Footage was created on 6 September bill Ingalls, which over 25 years is considered to be the official photographer for NASA.
Note that the ISS completes an orbit around the Earth in 90 minutes. Aboard the ISS today are 9 people: Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko, Oleg Kononenko, Sergei Volkov, NASA astronauts Scott Kelly, Kjell Lindgren, Japanese Kimiya Yui, Kazakhstan Aidyn Aimbetov and astronaut of the European space Agency Dane Andreas Mogensen. September 12, Padalka, Aimbetov and Mogensen have to go back to Earth on the Soyuz spacecraft.
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