Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Sun Jun 02 2019 15:57:51 Astronomy Picture of the Day Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2019 June 2 A Live View from the International Space Station Image Credit: NASA [2] , UStream [3] , HDEV Project [4] Explanation: If you were floating above the Earth right now, this is what you might see. In 2014, a robotic SpaceX [5] Dragon capsule [6] that delivered supplies to the Earth-orbiting International Space Station [7] (ISS) also delivered High Definition Earth Viewing [8] (HDEV) cameras that take and transmit live views of Earth. Pictured here [9] , when working, is the live video feed that switches between four cameras, each pointed differently. Watch white clouds, tan land, and blue oceans [10] drift by. The featured live view [11] will appear black when it is nighttime on the Earth below [12] , but the space station's rapid 90-minute orbit [13] compresses this dark time into only 45 minutes. The present location of the ISS above the Earth can be found on the web [14] . If the video appears gray, this indicates that the view is either being switched between cameras, or communications with the ISS is temporarily unavailable. As the HDEV project [15] continues, video quality will be monitored to assess the effects of high energy radiation, which types of cameras work best, and which Earth views [16] are the most popular. Tomorrow's picture: galaxies five ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [17] | Archive [18] | Submissions [19] | Index [20] | Search [21] | Calendar [22] | RSS [23] | Education [24] | About APOD [25] | Discuss [26] | > [27] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [28] (MTU [29] ) & Jerry Bonnell [30] (UMCP [31] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [32] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [33] A service of: ASD [34] at NASA [35] / GSFC [36] & Michigan Tech. U. [37] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] https://www.nasa.gov/ [3] http://www.ustream.tv/ [4] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/ Investigation.html?#id=892 [5] https://www.spacex.com/ [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_capsule [7] ap110309.html [8] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/ Investigation.html?#id=892 [9] https://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload [10] http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/oceanblue.html [11] http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload [12] ap130331.html [13] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit [14] https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ESRS/HDEV/ [15] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Definition_Earth_Viewing_cameras [16] ap100713.html [17] ap190601.html [18] archivepix.html [19] lib/apsubmit2015.html [20] lib/aptree.html [21] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [22] calendar/allyears.html [23] /apod.rss [24] lib/edlinks.html [25] lib/about_apod.html [26] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=190602 [27] ap190603.html [28] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [29] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [30] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [31] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [32] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [33] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [34] https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [35] https://www.nasa.gov/ [36] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [37] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .