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Stunning Time Lapse of the Earth From the ISS

Posted by samzenpus on from the how's-the-view-up-there? dept.

The Bad Astronomer writes "Science educator James Drake took 600 still photos from the International Space Station as it orbited the Earth, and created a fantastic time-lapse animation out of them. It must be seen to be appreciated; storms and cities fly past below in amazing clarity."

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  1. the video was spectacular by planimal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    seeing bolts of lightning from space was awfully sublime

    1. Re:the video was spectacular by ajo_arctus · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I was amazed at just how much lightning was in that video. It never occurred to me until now that there would be so many thunderstorms going on all over the world all of the time. This is a rare video where the superlatives in the headline (amazing, fantastic etc.) are well and truly justified.

  2. Fitting by DigitalGodBoy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot":
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M

    Always a good perspective check

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  3. It deserves the hyperbole by jthill · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For the first time, I wondered why we can't mod stories up.

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  4. Re:Light pollution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You've never been camping, have you?

  5. Re:Green city? by reverseengineer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Looks Veracruz has predominantly mercury vapor lighting, as opposed to the yellow-orange sodium vapor lighting seen in most of the other cities. Tokyo at night from space glows greenish blue for this reason, anyway. There's an discussion of this (and of other effects seen in pictures of cities at night taken from orbit) here: Cities At Night

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