Notice the shadow? The shuttles aren’t usually cast in shadow, given their high orbit, but in this rare instance everything lined up and the ISS managed to block out a bit of the Sun. Seemed like kind of a fitting photo for Discovery, which is docked with the ISS for the last time.
Cast in shadow; twilight of its career—that sort of thing.
Fun fact: Nespoli has a Flickr account that he updates almost as soon as he’s done snapping a photo. [Bad Astronomy]
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