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Description	English: A brilliant aurora streams above Earth's horizon in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 270 miles above the Indian Ocean northeast of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.
Date	17 August 2022, 19:23:34
Source	https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/52303715049/
Author	NASA/Bob Hines

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