Nasa Ufos In Space

By the instrumentation and communications officer console, both here in the front room and the support rooms, and those cameras can be maneuvered remotely from the ground to observe Earth targets, including thunderstorm activity during the night passes as well as other environmentally interesting targets of opportunity during the day passes. When the orbiter is on the dark side of the Earth, as it is now, at least for the next five to six minutes, the low light level black and white cameras are much better at observing the Earth's surface and the star clusters as the orbiter passes high overhead. When the orbiter moves within a daylight pass, the color cameras in the payload bay are used to get more interesting sights on the day side of the Earth. City lights are very evident now as the orbiter again is tracking.