Spaceweater.com recently posted some nice pictures of the sun. There are three “dots” on the sun. One sunspot, ISS and Discovery undergoing a flip maneuver so that the bottom of Discovery could be inspected by the ISS crew.

Some really stunning pictures can be found at the Return to Flight Mission Page. Those high resolution pictures have some incredible detail.

The sunspot is in the upper right corner

ISS and Discovery were about 180m apart.

Pictures (c) spaceweather.com

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