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A 5.5 hour time lapse I made of Mercury transiting the Sun the other week, shot from my apartment roof [OC]
Mission Control. It appears to be the profile & vest of Flight Director Gene Kranz at the helm. Mission Control is located at the Johnson Space Center, established in 1961 & renamed after President Lyndon Johnson in 1973. The JSC covers 1620 acres & 100 buildings. Flights from Project Gemini (following Gemini 3), Apollo, Skylab, Apollo–Soyuz & the Space Shuttle were monitored from here.
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Aurora Australis : Not fireworks, these intense shimmering lights still danced across Earth’s night skies late last month, seen here above the planet’s geographic south pole. The stunning auroral displays were triggered as a coronal mass ejection blasted from the Sun days earlier impacted the magnetosphere, beginning a widespread geomagnetic storm. The six fisheye panels were recorded with digital camera and battery in a heated box to guard against -90 degree F ambient temperatures of the long winter night. Around the horizon are south pole astronomical observatories, while beyond the Aurora Australis stretch the stars of the southern Milky Way. via NASA
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