Animation of Earth from Russia's Elektro-L satellite

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Animation of Earth from Russia's Elektro-L satellite

This animation, comprised of images taken by the Russian Elektro-L weather satellite from a geostationary orbit at a distance of 36,000 km, shows the changing illumination of Earth as it rotated on the autumnal equinox.

Roscosmos / Vitaliy Egorov

Copyright holder: Vitaliy Egorov

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Contact us to request publication permission from the copyright holder. Original image data dated on or about September 22, 2013