Astronaut Don Pettit spent more than a year on the International Space Station with a camera in his hand shooting some of the most imopressive visuals of Earth ever taken. Christoph Malin compiled the images taken from the station into time lapse video. You can watch it below and view screen shots from the video.
Time lapse video, especially those of space, are all the rage these days. Seems like a new one is popping up on the web each day but this is the best one so far.
It seems as if these is a new time laspse video of Earth shot by the International Space Station released each week. Some are better than others but I still watch them all. It’s transfixing. Of all the time lapse videos I’ve seen, probably dozens if not more, this one is hands down the best. It was shot by the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011, at an altitude of around 350 km. That’s about 30 times the altitude airplanes cruise at. It is a view that few of us will ever see but everyone can appreciate. What makes this video great is that it was shot in crystal clear HD, and also refurbished, smoothed, retimed, denoised, deflickered, cut, etc. Shooting locations in order of appearance: 1. Aurora Borealis Pass over the United States at Night 2. Aurora Borealis and eastern United States at Night 3. Aurora Australis from Madagascar to southwest of Australia 4. Aurora Australis south of Australia 5. Northwest coast of United States to Central South America at Night 6. Aurora Australis from the Southern to the Northern Pacific Ocean 7. Halfway around the World 8. Night Pass more »
Here is a time-lapse video shot by the crew of the ISS on Feb. 4, 2012. The crew is 240 miles above Earth and traveling roughly 17,500 mph. At this speed tcountries and continents pass by within mere minutes. Here, with the docked Soyuz and Progress vehicles in the foreground, we are looking southwest as the ISS travels east. At the beginning of the video it approaches the northwestern coast of the United States, with the lights of San Francisco and Seattle illuminating the coastline below. Passing over southern Canada, the moon reflects in the many rivers that snake across the land. Its light casts shadows onto components of the Station. As the dark blue expanses of the Great Lakes drift past to the south, the neon green glow of the aurora borealis appears above Earth’s northwestern limb, shimmering over the paler yellowish line of airglow. Eventually the ISS passes over southeastern Canada, Montréal and Cape Cod, heading out over the Atlantic. The moon manages to makes a shining appearance before the video fades. Although not “real-time”, this video (and several recent others like it) have been shot at a rate of one image per second, and the resulting slower frame rate more closely more »
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