Timelapse of the ISS flying over Earth (High-Res)

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by themichael • 15 years ago

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thirsteh• 15 years ago

Original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74mhQyuyELQ

Made by James Drake: http://infinity-imagined.tumblr.com/

kennu• 15 years ago

That's pretty cool when you switch to 1080p and watch fullscreen.

bocanaut• 15 years ago

yes, absolutely

lutorm3• 15 years ago

The airglow layer is really cool.

I must say I can't identify the cities linked in the caption though.

Luyt• 15 years ago

From the original post at YouTube:

"A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and the Amazon. Also visible is the earths ionosphere (thin yellow line) and the stars of our galaxy. Raw data was downloaded from;

The Gateway To Astronaut Photography of Earth "http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/mrf.htm ".

Virtualdub was used to create the final movie. (less info) View comments, related videos, and more"

lutorm3• 15 years ago

Yeah, I saw that -- still couldn't. bstx's annotations look good though, in which case it flies higher than I thought. I had the scale wrong by maybe a factor of 3.

bstx• 15 years ago

I made some annotations for California. Thats a best guess and might be horribly wrong. http://i.imgur.com/4J5P1.jpg (0:12m)

keypusher• 15 years ago

That looks convincing to me.

lutorm3• 15 years ago

I think "Lake Tahoe" is actually Reno.

blahedo• 15 years ago

It's hard because we're travelling in a weird direction, so everything's "upside down" as well as distorted. The first easy-to-pick-out spot is about 13s in: you can see the shape of San Francisco Bay (upside down) in the bottom of the image (as well as, less obviously, Sacramento and then Reno to its left) and a huge city right in the middle of the image (near the top of the globe) that is LA. The Central Valley (Fresno etc) is also clear in this spot once you've picked out the others.

The second really clear spot is about 17s you can see Baja California fork off from the main continent; a moment later, the first big electrical storm is just west (i.e. to the right of) the Mexico City mega-city.

mdonahoe• 15 years ago

If I saw this when I was a kid, I would probably work for NASA right now.

Timelapse of the ISS flying over Earth (High-Res)

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