Sunset from the ISS
What a beautiful sight, and a great way to see why our sky is the colors it becomes. The Troposphere during sunset becomes a orange/yellow color. The Troposphere is where the majority of Earth's clouds can be found. It is what creates the majority of the beautiful colors we see during sunset. The Stratosphere is a light blue band, that when mixed with the troposphere creates all the pink colors. It is a thin layer, and contains some hefty bacteria. The Stratosphere is also where airplanes fly, I guess I might know this if I had ridden in a plane more than once... Above the Stratosphere are many other upper atmospheric layers which are thin and eventually become the emptiness of space. The APOD also stated that sunset for the ISS is no big deal because they can see it up to 16 times a day.
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