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Shuttle Above Sunlit Earth

As the shuttle circles the earth in a low Earth orbit, it spends roughly half its orbit above the daylight portion of the Earth (the sunlit hemisphere) and the other half above the night portion of the Earth (the dark hemisphere). During each 90 minute orbit, the shuttle experiences about 45 minutes of daylight and 45 minutes of night.

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