STS-76 Photo of Mir

[Jeff Root]

I found this photo of the Russian space station Mir on the web:

http://www.freemars.org/jeff2/STS076-1.jpg

It was taken on STS-76. I really like the look of this photo
and want to use it in a computer slideshow. But the image is
only 640 x 526 pixels, which doesn't fill the 800 x 600 screen.
Enlarging it to 800 pixels wide doesn't hurt the appearance of
the Earth seriously, but Mir looks even fuzzier than it is.

Can anyone point me to a good quality scan of this photo which
is at least 800 pixels wide? Thank you!

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis

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[Jorge R. Frank]

(Jeff Root) wrote in
om:

> I found this photo of the Russian space station Mir on the web:
>
> http://www.freemars.org/jeff2/STS076-1.jpg
>
> It was taken on STS-76. I really like the look of this photo
> and want to use it in a computer slideshow. But the image is
> only 640 x 526 pixels, which doesn't fill the 800 x 600 screen.
> Enlarging it to 800 pixels wide doesn't hurt the appearance of
> the Earth seriously, but Mir looks even fuzzier than it is.
>
> Can anyone point me to a good quality scan of this photo which
> is at least 800 pixels wide? Thank you!

Best I could find is 640x620, but I don't think it's the same picture (Mir
is a bit further above the horizon, and the lighting is a little
different).

<http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/shuttle-mir/multimedia/sts-76-
photos/76p-034-low.htm>


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[cndc]

This is not the same photo but its pretty good:

http://www.joeyoder.com/pics/mir.jpg

Here is a google link for wallpaper size photos of MIR:

http://images.google.com/images?as_q=mir&svnum=10&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&imgsz=xxlarge&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&imgsz=xxlarge&as_filetype=&imgc=&as_sitesearch=&safe=images
http://tinyurl.com/go5e

Elizabeth

[cndc]

Jeff writes:

> I found this photo of the Russian space station Mir on the web:
>
> http://www.freemars.org/jeff2/STS076-1.jpg

http://www.mpe.mpg.de/www_x/PIFICONS/mir2-l.jpg
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/astroweb2000/fondecran/img/spatial_mir_02.jpg
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/interacao/images/2mir800.jpg
http://www.wasser-welt.at/bodypainting/bodypaint032.jpg

;-)

Elizabeth