After a minute, the ground controller requests that she be given control of the camera. After a short pause, the astronaut complies. The camera then pans back up into the tail area. The lights that were there just moments before are now gone. This scene shows the nightside Earth filling most of the frame with the horizon extending from the upper left of screen to the lower right.
Black space is seen above the horizon at the screen's upper right.
Clouds, bright city lights on the surface, and an intense lightning storm can be seen. The atmosphere is slightly luminescent at the limb and is clearly discernible. Against this background, several lighted objects can be seen traveling slowly, apparently above the atmosphere. This object travels slowly, parallel to the horizon, from lower right to upper left. Suddenly, a bright flash of light fills the screen.