Earth seen from the ISS by Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. – Cristoforetti – ESA NASA – Sipa
They are six, confined up there in the International Space Station (ISS), 400 kilometers from Earth, and we may never have felt so in tune with them. And it will be even truer this evening, Tuesday, March 24, where, a fairly rare phenomenon, the ISS will be very visible to the naked eye. From a Parisian balcony, a Toulouse window, a garden square elsewhere in France, it will only be up to you to broaden the horizon of the
containment, looking up.
“The ISS will appear on the sunset side, to the southwest, at 7.50 pm, explains Christophe Chaffardon, director of education and scientific mediation at the Cité de l’Espace From toulouse. The very, very bright point will appear 40 ° above the horizon in Toulouse, vertically in Paris. ” The station will disappear when it is northeast.
A stealthy passage, of just under five minutes, made visible because at dusk the ISS will still be lit by sunlight as night falls on Earth. And also because the weather forecasts a fairly clear sky over France this Tuesday evening.
In addition, you will be right in position for the # 20honapplaudit. Another great light.
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