NASA image shows a Space Station passing in front of the Sun

NASA image shows a Space Station passing in front of the Sun

Photo montage shows the International Space Station passing by the Sun on Sunday (Photo: NASA / Bill Ingalls)

The US space agency released a picture showing the International Space Station passing in front of the sun.
The image is an assembly of five photographs taken in the last domino from Shenandoah National Park in the US state of Virginia.

The station was within 8 kilometers per second speed, according to NASA.

The International Space Station currently has nine astronauts: NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren; cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko, Sergey Volkov and Oleg Kononenko; Japanese Kimiya Yui; the Dane Andreas Mogensen and kazakhstan Aidyn Aimbetov.

International Space Station (Photo: NASA)

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