Space station commander captures unprecedented view of comet Lovejoy
(麻豆淫院Org.com) -- International Space Station Commander Dan Burbank captured spectacular imagery of Comet Lovejoy, viewed from about 240 miles above the Earth鈥檚 horizon on Wednesday, Dec. 21.
Today Burbank described seeing the comet as 鈥渢he most amazing thing I have ever seen in space,鈥� in an interview with WDIV-TV in Detroit. Burbank took hundreds of still images of the comet.
The images also were processed into a time-lapse video that will air on NASA TV at 4 p.m. CST.
Provided by JPL/NASA
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