On 07/25/11 19:04, Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL wrote:
At 05:38 PM 7/25/2011 -0400, you wrote:
On 07/25/11 14:27, Clint Bradford wrote:
NASA PHOTO -
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/573236main_iss028e018218_full.jpg
This doesn't make any sense to me. It looks like a launch, not a
descent.
If the shuttle went down at that angle it would be toast.
I think they got their captions wrong?
--STeve
I thought that too until I took another look at it. This is a two
dimensional view of three dimensional space, so things in the photo
might give a different impression than what is described by it. The
decent only looks step because the earth is a sphere and the orbiter's
track in this view is away from the ISS.
73
KB7ADL
I'm struggling to 'get' this. It's certainly an interesting optical
illusion, or
whatever this kind of misleading effect is... Thanks, I'll ponder this!
--STeve Andre'
wb8wsf en72
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