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Thin blue, white and orange bands of atmosphere above the dark limb of Earth

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Layers of the atmosphere at sunrise

Bands of blue, white and orange mark the layers of the Earth's atmosphere as the sun rises, photographed from the Space Shuttle during mission STS-133.

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NASA
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atmosphere, earth, sunrise, space shuttle, layers

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