Here is the link to a photo released this past spring that appears on NASA's web site:
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/images/ESC/large/ISS006/ISS006-E-51192.JPG
Click on it to see a photo of the earth as seen from the International Space Station. I can't tell what portion of the planet it shows. When the page loads, it resolves to a size that fits the browser page. Click your mouse in the picture and it will magnify to a much higher (and I assume the shot's original) resolution.
Now page up all the way to the top of the photo and peer carefully at the area between the earth's horizon and the top of the pic. There you will see this:
Look in the center of the shot, barely above the atmosphere's blur:
What is that? Is it orbiting the earth or is it in space? Anyone have an idea? And remember - NASA released this photo.
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I suspect it is an elf or a spite or a similar upper atmosphere type of lighting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper-atmospheric_lightning
The black "divot" in the top of the dark blue atmosphere below the unknown object is suggestive that it is an imaging artifact, some marker that NASA puts at the top of its images.
Or else the drive of this spacecraft leaves a visible wake in the atmosphere.
For what it's worth, the land mass on the left is Cuba, looking east to west.
As for the object, my guess (& that's all it is) would be something similar to our old KH system spy satellites, on edge.
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It might be a defect on the lens cause by a speck of cosmic dust... maybe a slight impact on the lens.. explaining the light spot and a crack across the horizontal.
What is it? It is neat.
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