Earth from the ISS - Amazing Time Lapse Video

[Haris]

Watch in fullscreen HD.



This is real footage, not computer generated made from images taken aboard the International Space Station (ISS). An astronaut sees that 14 times every day.

Amazing video, especially the lightning storms, the reflection of the city lights on the solar panel and the sun rising at the end.

The thin yellow line is the ionosphere.

[Afghanistan2010]

wow amazing

[Haris]

This video was only uploaded a few hours ago:








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An article about it:

Space Station Soars Over the Southern Lights


It must be ISS flyover video season, because here's another breathtaking beauty
made from images taken by the Expedition 28 crew aboard the space station! Here we
get to witness the glamor of the Aurora Australis -- a.k.a. the Southern Lights -- as
the International Space Station orbits high above.

The Aurora Australis is the southern hemisphere's version of the Aurora Borealis, and is
created in the same way: high-energy ions emitted from the sun collide with Earth's
magnetic field and excite atoms of various elements located in the upper atmosphere,
which then release light energy we can see.

The colors of the aurora are determined by the type of atoms releasing light as well as
their altitudes. The most common gas at lower levels of the Earth's ionosphere is
oxygen, which emits light in the green and yellow end of the spectrum -- colors our
eyes detect particularly well.

Other colors, like reds, blues and purples, are also possible but harder to detect
without using longer-exposure photography.

Besides shimmering sheets of aurorae, a high-altitude phenomenon called airglow is
also visible as a thin line of pale yellow light surrounding Earth's limb. This is caused by
energy released by molecules high in the atmosphere that were charged up during the
day by ultraviolet light from the sun... not unlike a glow-in-the-dark sticker!

Between this video and the previous one posted here, it's no wonder that the
astronauts lucky enough to work on the Space Station love their jobs as much as
they do. In spite of all the inherent risks to working in low-Earth orbit, you simply
can't beat the view.

The image sequence seen here was acquired on Sept. 11, 2011 from 13:45:06 to
14:01:51 GMT with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a 24 mm lens, and is provided by
the International Space Station Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image
Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. Additional images taken by
astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut
Photography of Earth.


Space Station Soars Over the Southern Lights : Discovery News

[Janana]

Thanks for posting, it's gorgeous! Totally hooking up my laptop to my TV to watch in HD.

[Janana]

@ Aurora Australis

[kakargirl]

Amazing videos haris bro ,on full screen its even better.