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... what I heard. One famous astronomer, Carl Sagan, called the Earth seen against a ... from far away. The blue comes from the oceans; the white comes from clouds and polar ice caps. When the Apollo astronauts looked back from the Moon, they thought the Earth looked ...
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... and it looks pure white to most of the astronauts viewing it through their special gold helmet shields. These shields reduce the level of sunlight to a safe margin in space so the astronauts will not damage their eyesight.
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Answer provided by Jim Zebrowski
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... it is responsible for the familiar images we see of astronauts floating in their spacecraft and space stations. Apparent weightlessness looks like a lot of fun and you can probably imagine lots of fun ... that it does on the Earth's surface. It's the orbital motion, and the fact that the astronauts and Shuttle are orbiting at the same distance from the center of the Earth, that ...
... color seems to correlate to the titanium content of the glass. The Moon is covered in craters, mountains, valleys and great plains, called Maria. Since the Moon has no atmosphere it ... Ph.D. & Kenneth J. Murphy
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From very far off, you cannot see the brown areas. As you come closer, to about the distance of the Moon, only then does ... Space - by Lonnie Schorer
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... can be amazingly bright, even here on Earth, but you have to be looking up far away from any other lights to really notice—like when you visit the desert.
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Answer provided by Derek Webber & Capt. USN (Ret.) William Readdy
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From the Moon, the Earth's atmosphere looks like a thin envelope around the planet. Proportionally, our atmosphere is about as thick as the ... , Ph.D. & Kenneth J. Murphy
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When in space, we can witness a sunset and a sunrise every 45 minutes while we orbit the Earth. Astronauts who are performing spacewalks outside the Shuttle lower their gold protective visors to ... be protected from the incredible increase in brightness once the Sun reappears from behind the Earth. We can also clearly see the delicate nature of the Earth set against the black void of space, with the ...
... Robert P. McCoy, Ph.D.
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... what other details you'd see, because we have no close-up pictures yet.
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Answer provided by Dr. John Spencer, Ph.D.
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