Aurora over the Night Side of Earth, from the ISS
Aurora over the night side of Earth, photographed in April 2020 by the Expedition 62 crew aboard the International Space Station. The upper half is pure black space — the kind of wallpaper where the lock-screen clock reads best.
Free · 1440×2560 px. Tap and hold the opened image (right-click on a computer) to save it.
About this wallpaper
An ISS photograph from NASA's image library (iss062e148363, taken 13 April 2020), cropped to 9:16 around Earth's limb. Night clouds and the thin blue layer of the atmosphere at the bottom, a band of green aurora stretching above them, and black space dotted with stars across the upper half. Nearly 60% of the pixels are pure black, which OLED screens switch off. A public-domain NASA photograph.
On the home screen
With black space across the upper half, icons at the top never fight the background; leave the aurora band below them clear.
On the lock screen
The top is black space with only points of stars, so a white clock reads perfectly.
Colors and mood
Black, with the green of the aurora, the blue of the atmosphere and the gray of the clouds.
Specs
- Aspect ratio
- 9:16
- Resolution
- 1440×2560
- Region
- Neon Forest
- Coordinates
- 11·03
- Sector
- ISLAND III
- Lock-screen clock
- ◎ Clearly readable
- Home screen
- ○ Fine
- Pure black
- 59%
- Brightness
- 39 / 255 · dark
- Artist
- NASA / ISS Expedition 62 · 2020-04-13
- Source
- NASA (public domain)
- License
- Public domain (NASA)
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