An Orbital Sunrise Illuminates Earth's Atmosphere | International Space Station

An Orbital Sunrise Illuminates Earth's Atmosphere | International Space Station

An orbital sunrise begins to illuminate Earth's atmosphere in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 270 miles above the south Pacific Ocean about 2,200 miles west of New Zealand.

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Expedition 69 Crew (July 2023)

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin & Andrey Fedyaev

Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

NASA: Flight Engineers Frank Rubio, Stephen Bowen, Warren Hoburg

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Date: June 25, 2023

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