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An American Astronaut Has Posted The First-Ever Vine From Space, And It's Genuinely Awesome

Rob Wile   

An American Astronaut Has Posted The First-Ever Vine From Space, And It's Genuinely Awesome
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American astronaut Rick Wiseman, whom we wrote about earlier this week, has posted the first-ever Vine from space.

It's way cool.

Wiseman posted a sped up tracking shot of Earth's terminator line - the point at which its surface is divided into "night" and "day" by the sun - as seen from the International Space Station.

Of course, the sun never sets in space, so when you're orbiting the Earth, all you see is the sun going around and around:

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