This image of the Space Shuttle is truly beautiful, but is it real?

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I saw this image in the Infobae article La NASA probará un paracaídas para posar naves espaciales en Marte which translated from Spanish into English by Google says

NASA will test a parachute to pose spaceships on Mars

The image looks plausible to me, refraction in Earth's atmosphere, a crescent moon nearly back-lit by the Sun at sunset, colors in the atmosphere, the Space Shuttle with it's doors open...

But it looks too good to be true, I'm not sure this specific view of the Shuttle and Earth's atmosphere is viewable geometrically from the ISS, even with a telescope, and a reverse image search only shows me other Spanish language news items (suggesting they come from a similar source) and no links to NASA for the original.

Is this space-themed artwork, or is it a real photo, possibly taken from the ISS?

iss nasa space-shuttle imaging space-art

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I saw this image in the Infobae article La NASA probará un paracaídas para posar naves espaciales en Marte which translated from Spanish into English by Google says

NASA will test a parachute to pose spaceships on Mars

The image looks plausible to me, refraction in Earth's atmosphere, a crescent moon nearly back-lit by the Sun at sunset, colors in the atmosphere, the Space Shuttle with it's doors open...

But it looks too good to be true, I'm not sure this specific view of the Shuttle and Earth's atmosphere is viewable geometrically from the ISS, even with a telescope, and a reverse image search only shows me other Spanish language news items (suggesting they come from a similar source) and no links to NASA for the original.

Is this space-themed artwork, or is it a real photo, possibly taken from the ISS?

iss nasa space-shuttle imaging space-art

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I saw this image in the Infobae article La NASA probará un paracaídas para posar naves espaciales en Marte which translated from Spanish into English by Google says

NASA will test a parachute to pose spaceships on Mars

The image looks plausible to me, refraction in Earth's atmosphere, a crescent moon nearly back-lit by the Sun at sunset, colors in the atmosphere, the Space Shuttle with it's doors open...

But it looks too good to be true, I'm not sure this specific view of the Shuttle and Earth's atmosphere is viewable geometrically from the ISS, even with a telescope, and a reverse image search only shows me other Spanish language news items (suggesting they come from a similar source) and no links to NASA for the original.

Is this space-themed artwork, or is it a real photo, possibly taken from the ISS?

iss nasa space-shuttle imaging space-art

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I saw this image in the Infobae article La NASA probará un paracaídas para posar naves espaciales en Marte which translated from Spanish into English by Google says

NASA will test a parachute to pose spaceships on Mars

The image looks plausible to me, refraction in Earth's atmosphere, a crescent moon nearly back-lit by the Sun at sunset, colors in the atmosphere, the Space Shuttle with it's doors open...

But it looks too good to be true, I'm not sure this specific view of the Shuttle and Earth's atmosphere is viewable geometrically from the ISS, even with a telescope, and a reverse image search only shows me other Spanish language news items (suggesting they come from a similar source) and no links to NASA for the original.

Is this space-themed artwork, or is it a real photo, possibly taken from the ISS?

iss nasa space-shuttle imaging space-art

iss nasa space-shuttle imaging space-art

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This image is very similar to the following image

https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-130/html/iss022e062672.html

with the following description

STS-130 Shuttle Mission Imagery

ISS022-E-062672 (9 Feb. 2010)

Though astronauts and cosmonauts often encounter striking scenes of Earth's limb, this very unique image, part of a series over Earth's colorful horizon, has the added feature of a silhouette of the space shuttle Endeavour. The image was photographed by an Expedition 22 crew member prior to STS-130 rendezvous and docking operations with the International Space Station. Docking occurred at 11:06 p.m. (CST) on Feb. 9, 2010. The orbital outpost was at 46.9 south latitude and 80.5 west longitude, over the South Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern Chile with an altitude of 183 nautical miles when the image was recorded. The orange layer is the troposphere, where all of the weather and clouds which we typically watch and experience are generated and contained. This orange layer gives way to the whitish Stratosphere and then into the Mesosphere. In some frames the black color is part of a window frame rather than the blackness of space.

and

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1592.html

with description

In a very unique setting over Earth's colorful horizon, the silhouette of the space shuttle Endeavour is featured in this photo by an Expedition 22 crew member on board the International Space Station, as the shuttle approached for its docking on Feb. 9 during the STS-130 mission.

However compared to the actual photo it looks modified. There's no moon or stars in the original. There are three photos taken later

https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-130/ndxpage5.html

but you can see that nowhere you can see stars and moon. Even if some unknown photo of this sequence has captured the moon it seems that for Feb. 9 2010 the phase was somewhat different (taken from the Heavens Above)

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  Great detective work, thank you. I think it's fairly conclusive then.
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  @uhoh Thanks, I've added about the moon
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  okay then, excellent detective work! Because the Moon is only ~400,000 km away, it has a slightly different apparent phase depending on location (the Earth is ~13,000 km wide) but that probably doesn't have enough of an effect to account for such a large difference.
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This image is very similar to the following image

https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-130/html/iss022e062672.html

with the following description

STS-130 Shuttle Mission Imagery

ISS022-E-062672 (9 Feb. 2010)

Though astronauts and cosmonauts often encounter striking scenes of Earth's limb, this very unique image, part of a series over Earth's colorful horizon, has the added feature of a silhouette of the space shuttle Endeavour. The image was photographed by an Expedition 22 crew member prior to STS-130 rendezvous and docking operations with the International Space Station. Docking occurred at 11:06 p.m. (CST) on Feb. 9, 2010. The orbital outpost was at 46.9 south latitude and 80.5 west longitude, over the South Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern Chile with an altitude of 183 nautical miles when the image was recorded. The orange layer is the troposphere, where all of the weather and clouds which we typically watch and experience are generated and contained. This orange layer gives way to the whitish Stratosphere and then into the Mesosphere. In some frames the black color is part of a window frame rather than the blackness of space.

and

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1592.html

with description

In a very unique setting over Earth's colorful horizon, the silhouette of the space shuttle Endeavour is featured in this photo by an Expedition 22 crew member on board the International Space Station, as the shuttle approached for its docking on Feb. 9 during the STS-130 mission.

However compared to the actual photo it looks modified. There's no moon or stars in the original. There are three photos taken later

https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-130/ndxpage5.html

but you can see that nowhere you can see stars and moon. Even if some unknown photo of this sequence has captured the moon it seems that for Feb. 9 2010 the phase was somewhat different (taken from the Heavens Above)

share|improve this answer

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OON

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  Great detective work, thank you. I think it's fairly conclusive then.
  – uhoh
  9 mins ago
  
  

  
  
  
  


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  @uhoh Thanks, I've added about the moon
  – OON
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  okay then, excellent detective work! Because the Moon is only ~400,000 km away, it has a slightly different apparent phase depending on location (the Earth is ~13,000 km wide) but that probably doesn't have enough of an effect to account for such a large difference.
  – uhoh
  19 secs ago
  

  
  
  
  

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This image is very similar to the following image

https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-130/html/iss022e062672.html

with the following description

STS-130 Shuttle Mission Imagery

ISS022-E-062672 (9 Feb. 2010)

Though astronauts and cosmonauts often encounter striking scenes of Earth's limb, this very unique image, part of a series over Earth's colorful horizon, has the added feature of a silhouette of the space shuttle Endeavour. The image was photographed by an Expedition 22 crew member prior to STS-130 rendezvous and docking operations with the International Space Station. Docking occurred at 11:06 p.m. (CST) on Feb. 9, 2010. The orbital outpost was at 46.9 south latitude and 80.5 west longitude, over the South Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern Chile with an altitude of 183 nautical miles when the image was recorded. The orange layer is the troposphere, where all of the weather and clouds which we typically watch and experience are generated and contained. This orange layer gives way to the whitish Stratosphere and then into the Mesosphere. In some frames the black color is part of a window frame rather than the blackness of space.

and

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1592.html

with description

In a very unique setting over Earth's colorful horizon, the silhouette of the space shuttle Endeavour is featured in this photo by an Expedition 22 crew member on board the International Space Station, as the shuttle approached for its docking on Feb. 9 during the STS-130 mission.

However compared to the actual photo it looks modified. There's no moon or stars in the original. There are three photos taken later

https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-130/ndxpage5.html

but you can see that nowhere you can see stars and moon. Even if some unknown photo of this sequence has captured the moon it seems that for Feb. 9 2010 the phase was somewhat different (taken from the Heavens Above)

share|improve this answer

edited 4 mins ago

answered 30 mins ago

OON

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  Great detective work, thank you. I think it's fairly conclusive then.
  – uhoh
  9 mins ago
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  @uhoh Thanks, I've added about the moon
  – OON
  3 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  okay then, excellent detective work! Because the Moon is only ~400,000 km away, it has a slightly different apparent phase depending on location (the Earth is ~13,000 km wide) but that probably doesn't have enough of an effect to account for such a large difference.
  – uhoh
  19 secs ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

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This image is very similar to the following image

https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-130/html/iss022e062672.html

with the following description

STS-130 Shuttle Mission Imagery

ISS022-E-062672 (9 Feb. 2010)

Though astronauts and cosmonauts often encounter striking scenes of Earth's limb, this very unique image, part of a series over Earth's colorful horizon, has the added feature of a silhouette of the space shuttle Endeavour. The image was photographed by an Expedition 22 crew member prior to STS-130 rendezvous and docking operations with the International Space Station. Docking occurred at 11:06 p.m. (CST) on Feb. 9, 2010. The orbital outpost was at 46.9 south latitude and 80.5 west longitude, over the South Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern Chile with an altitude of 183 nautical miles when the image was recorded. The orange layer is the troposphere, where all of the weather and clouds which we typically watch and experience are generated and contained. This orange layer gives way to the whitish Stratosphere and then into the Mesosphere. In some frames the black color is part of a window frame rather than the blackness of space.

and

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1592.html

with description

In a very unique setting over Earth's colorful horizon, the silhouette of the space shuttle Endeavour is featured in this photo by an Expedition 22 crew member on board the International Space Station, as the shuttle approached for its docking on Feb. 9 during the STS-130 mission.

However compared to the actual photo it looks modified. There's no moon or stars in the original. There are three photos taken later

https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-130/ndxpage5.html

but you can see that nowhere you can see stars and moon. Even if some unknown photo of this sequence has captured the moon it seems that for Feb. 9 2010 the phase was somewhat different (taken from the Heavens Above)

share|improve this answer

edited 4 mins ago

answered 30 mins ago

OON

66128

This image is very similar to the following image

https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-130/html/iss022e062672.html

with the following description

STS-130 Shuttle Mission Imagery

ISS022-E-062672 (9 Feb. 2010)

Though astronauts and cosmonauts often encounter striking scenes of Earth's limb, this very unique image, part of a series over Earth's colorful horizon, has the added feature of a silhouette of the space shuttle Endeavour. The image was photographed by an Expedition 22 crew member prior to STS-130 rendezvous and docking operations with the International Space Station. Docking occurred at 11:06 p.m. (CST) on Feb. 9, 2010. The orbital outpost was at 46.9 south latitude and 80.5 west longitude, over the South Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern Chile with an altitude of 183 nautical miles when the image was recorded. The orange layer is the troposphere, where all of the weather and clouds which we typically watch and experience are generated and contained. This orange layer gives way to the whitish Stratosphere and then into the Mesosphere. In some frames the black color is part of a window frame rather than the blackness of space.

and

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1592.html

with description

In a very unique setting over Earth's colorful horizon, the silhouette of the space shuttle Endeavour is featured in this photo by an Expedition 22 crew member on board the International Space Station, as the shuttle approached for its docking on Feb. 9 during the STS-130 mission.

However compared to the actual photo it looks modified. There's no moon or stars in the original. There are three photos taken later

https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-130/ndxpage5.html

but you can see that nowhere you can see stars and moon. Even if some unknown photo of this sequence has captured the moon it seems that for Feb. 9 2010 the phase was somewhat different (taken from the Heavens Above)

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edited 4 mins ago

edited 4 mins ago

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answered 30 mins ago

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  Great detective work, thank you. I think it's fairly conclusive then.
  – uhoh
  9 mins ago
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  @uhoh Thanks, I've added about the moon
  – OON
  3 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  okay then, excellent detective work! Because the Moon is only ~400,000 km away, it has a slightly different apparent phase depending on location (the Earth is ~13,000 km wide) but that probably doesn't have enough of an effect to account for such a large difference.
  – uhoh
  19 secs ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  Great detective work, thank you. I think it's fairly conclusive then.
  – uhoh
  9 mins ago
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  @uhoh Thanks, I've added about the moon
  – OON
  3 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  okay then, excellent detective work! Because the Moon is only ~400,000 km away, it has a slightly different apparent phase depending on location (the Earth is ~13,000 km wide) but that probably doesn't have enough of an effect to account for such a large difference.
  – uhoh
  19 secs ago
  

  
  
  
  

Great detective work, thank you. I think it's fairly conclusive then.
– uhoh
9 mins ago

Great detective work, thank you. I think it's fairly conclusive then.
– uhoh
9 mins ago

1

1

@uhoh Thanks, I've added about the moon
– OON
3 mins ago

@uhoh Thanks, I've added about the moon
– OON
3 mins ago

okay then, excellent detective work! Because the Moon is only ~400,000 km away, it has a slightly different apparent phase depending on location (the Earth is ~13,000 km wide) but that probably doesn't have enough of an effect to account for such a large difference.
– uhoh
19 secs ago

okay then, excellent detective work! Because the Moon is only ~400,000 km away, it has a slightly different apparent phase depending on location (the Earth is ~13,000 km wide) but that probably doesn't have enough of an effect to account for such a large difference.
– uhoh
19 secs ago

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