The station passes over a sunspot big enough to swallow Earth.
Legault drove six hours from his home to go to the Netherlands, where he watched the transit happen just one hour after the spacewalk began.The ISS orbits Earth every 90 minutes, traveling about the distance from Earth toThough the two targets may look close to each other in Legault's footage, unlike Icarus, the ISS stays a safe distance from the sun. The ISS orbits approximately 250 miles above Earth, but the sun is on average almost 300,000 times farther away from us, at 93 million miles .
According to Legault, all the individual images are single shots at 1/32000s. He doesn't capture ISS transits with stackings or assemblies.
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