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Animation of Earth from Russia's Elektro-L satellite

Animation of Earth from Russia's Elektro-L satellite
Animation of Earth from Russia's Elektro-L satellite This animation, comprised of images taken by the Russian Elektro-L weather satellite from a geostationary orbit at a distance of 36,000 km, shows the changing illumination of Earth as it rotated on the autumnal equinox. Roscosmos / Vitaliy Egorov