A radiant aurora crowns the Earth’s horizon

iss062e102315 (March 17, 2020) --- A radiant aurora crowns the Earth's horizon beneath a starry sky as the International Space Station orbited 262 miles above the far eastern coast of Russia just off the Sea of Okhotsk.

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A radiant aurora crowns the Earth’s horizon

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