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Description The crew of STS-85 used a 35mm camera with a time exposure to record this image of the southern lights or Aurora Australis. The vertical stabilizer of the Space Shuttle Discovery appears in the foreground.
Date 1-19 August 1997
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Southern Lights/Aurora Austalis from Space Shuttle (NASA)

Author NASA [VIA PINGNEWS], uploaded to flickr by David Shapinsky from Washington, D.C., United States
This image or video was catalogued by one of the centers of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: STS085-365-006.

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