Spectacular Time-lapse view of earth from space
This time-lapse was created from photographs taken from the International Space Station from August to October 2011. As well as providing a very cool HD view of our Earth from space, this video also presents a spectacular rarely seen perspective of the Aurora Borealis.
Shooting locations in order of appearance:
International Space Station flight over Earth
This Youtube video, viewed by more than 2.4 million people since it was posted Sept. 15, is a time-lapse movie of International Space Station images as it passes over Earth.
The nighttime images begin over the Pacific, passing over North and South America before the space station creates its own sunrise over Antarctica.
Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco and Phoenix are visible, as well as Texas and New Mexico.
The author, who assembled the images from NASA’s Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth, is identified only as “yesterday2221,” age 26.
