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South Pacific Sunrise

by Energy 2000

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South Pacific Sunrise 02:52
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2.
Fireflies 02:46
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3.
Ansco Autoset (Hi-Matic) 02:52
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4.
Moving Constellations 02:49
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5.
Space Drifter 03:32
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6.
Retrograde 04:05
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"You know, the sunsets and sunrises up there occur at about 18 times their normal speed. There's a point where the sun comes through just right and the atmosphere acts like a prism...you see the whole spectrum all the way across...red, orange, yellow, blue, green, indigo, violet...the whole works."

- John Glenn, 40th anniversary of Mercury-Atlas 6

"Coming out of the night on the first orbit, at the first glint of sunlight on the capsule, I was looking inside the capsule to check some instruments for probably 15 or 20 seconds. When I glanced back out the window my initial reaction was that the capsule had tumbled and that I was looking off into a star field and was not able to see the horizon. I could see nothing but luminous specks about the size of the stars outside."

"As I looked out to the side of the capsule the density of the field appeared to be about the same as directly behind the capsule. The distance between these particles would average, I would estimate, some 8 or 10 feet apart. Occasionally, one or two of them would come swirling up around the capsule and across the window, drifting very, very slowly, and then would gradually move off back in the direction I was looking. This was surprising, too, because it showed we probably did have a very small flow field set up around the capsule or they would not have changed their direction of motion as they did. I do not recall observing any vertical or lateral motion other than that of the particles that swirled around close to the spacecraft. It appeared to me that I was moving straight through a cloud of them at a very slow speed. I observed these luminous objects for approximately four minutes before the sun came up to a position where it was sufficiently above the horizon so that all the background area was lighted and I no longer could see them."

-John Glenn, 29 June 1962

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released August 14, 2015

Cover image credit: NASA/JSC/ASU
Andros Island, Bahamas

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Energy 2000 Richmond, Virginia

Inspired by long pan reverb, tremolo, delay, vintage amplification, 1960s-era Fender Mustang guitars, obscure surf rock, warm pad synth sounds, sci-fi radio shows from the early 1950s, still images captured on 70 mm Kodak Panatomic-X fine-grained 80 ASA b/w film, moon bounces, and the incredibly rich spectrum of emotion associated with attempting to comprehend the beautiful vastness of space. ... more

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