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... Infobox bodystyle = float:right; valign:top; title = Elliot M. See Jr. titlestyle = image = Image:Astronaut_see.jpg 200px imagestyle = caption = Elliot M. See Jr. captionstyle = headerstyle = background: ccf; labelstyle = background: ddf; datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Elliot M. See Jr. header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = Jul 23 1927 header4 = label4 = Birth Place data4 = label5 ...

... gets such great pictures of distant star formations, and why it has been able to see the most distant galaxies ever recorded. Bigger space telescopes in the future will be able to see even further. For a human astronaut standing on the Moon, however, the brightness of the surface makes it hard to see the stars in the sky. The best combination uses both humans and instruments, and each ...

... map, bounded by the oceans. Of course, you cannot see any lines that show where the state boundaries are. You cannot even see where the boundaries with Mexico and Canada are. Boundaries disappear when you see the world from space. If you are flying in low orbit, like on the International Space Station, you can see cities from space, especially at night, when the lights shine out in the surrounding darkness ...

... can look out and take pictures with virtually no distortion. In the daytime you can see the Earth below and the stars if you look away from the Sun. At night you can see the city lights on the Earth's surface and the stars in the black sky. If you are near another spacecraft, like the International Space Station (ISS), you can see it quite clearly because there is no atmosphere to interfere. ---- Answer provided by Jon H ...

When you are in space you can see even more of the night sky than you can see from here on the ground. On Earth the atmosphere distorts and scatters some of ... the really dim objects. Finally, from orbit you would not have any horizon and could see much more of the sky. ---- Answer provided by Jim Zebrowski Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question ...

... ozone layer from space. You will need a special instrument to "see" it. So the Space Shuttle carries the Shuttle ozone limb sounding experiment-2 (SOLSE-2). ...

... stars hundreds of light years away. Vision in space does not improve, but you can see distant things more clearly because there is no atmosphere to interfere with the light coming ...

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Yes, we can see air pollution from space. The Space Shuttle carries a special pollution-measuring satellite. The name ...

... driven more by curiosity, imagination, and determination than it is by how well you can see something. ---- Answer provided by Mark A. Riccobono, Robert O. Shelton, Ph.D. Image:K2S logosmall ...

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