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'Earthshine', as the rising sun pierces our razor-thin atmosphere...

The Space Station basking in blue Earthshine as the rising sun pierces our razor-thin atmosphere to cover the Space Station with blue light. I’ll never forget this place…seeing this makes the heart soar and the soul sing.

-- Astronaut Douglas Wheelock

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How thin is Earth's atmosphere? "Look at how thin our atmosphere is.

"This is all there is between humankind and deadly space" - AstroGerst 2014

A thin atmospheric layer enabling life as we know it... [1] --[2] -- [3] -- [4]

Astronaut Alexander Gerst on the #ISS [5] [6]

GreenPolicy360: We are just beginning to geo-monitor our thin atmosphere, earth resources, systems and biosphere from space... [7] [8] [9]

Beginning with first 'whole earth' images of our home planet, taken in the Apollo era... [10] [11]

Seeing how thin our atmosphere is...