Earth Illuminated: Dazzling ISS time-lapse photography, from NASA (video)

John Streeter, who is a television producer with NASA at Johnson Space Center in Houston, sends this cool video and tells Boing Boing:

It is all real, all shot from the International Space Station and all beautiful. It is time-lapse photography that showcases stars, cities at night, lightning storms and the aurora all from the vantage point of the space station. Also, there is a link at the end where you can visit, download and create your own videos if you wish.
The station is a remarkable engineering achievement and this is just a small side benefit of being in orbit. I hope you enjoy.

NASA.gov link, and here's the video on YouTube.

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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Wow, that is awesome
http://www.darkphibre.com MrScience

The music in the video was turned down way down… and, as a delightful synchronicity, my background Infected Mushroom just happened to sync almost perfectly. Recreated below… I could have probably tweaked timing a bit, but this is how I experienced it:

http://videodoubler.com/combo/1929

(you’ll have to turn down the left video)
Sarah Hilliard

Back on the 29th, I was taking a red-eye over central Canada, and treated to an amazing view of a severe lightning storm going utterly ballistic with lightning a few thousand meters below and beside the plane. One of the most amazing things I’ve seen with a naked eye.

If I let myself watch these NASA images in real-time, I don’t think I’d be able to let myself blink.
http://profiles.google.com/marc.k.mielke Marc Mielke

What was the music? It sounded like something from the Mass Effect series.
http://www.facebook.com/wolfmanbliss Matt Bliss

I had to watch this like 3 times during my lunch break, it was so awesome. It really called to a child hood sense wonder of a world with so many things to discover in it. For some reason the soundtrack from Final Fantasy 3 popped in my head, and I found Terra’s theme on youtube, which syncs up surprisingly well.
http://funisforassholes.com/ funisforassholes

Very beautiful… there is also a gallery of long exposure ‘stills’ from the ISS, which I wrote about here http://www.funisforassholes.com/2012/06/international-space-stations-long.html#.UCQ4QKAwHTo
R S

I wonder what video format this was shot in.
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