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View from space: Crescent moon and Earth’s atmosphere

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February 7, 2014

How gorgeous is this?

On February 1, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata tweeted this view of a crescent moon rising and the cusp of Earth’s atmosphere.

You see the distinct colors layers in our planet’s atmosphere because the dominant gases and particles in each layer act as prisms, filtering out certain colors of light.

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Eleanor Imster has helped write and edit EarthSky since 1995. She was an integral part of the award-winning EarthSky radio series almost since it began until it ended in 2013. She and her husband live in Tennessee, where they enjoy guitar playing and singing. They have 2 grown sons.