What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that man set foot on the Moon but that they set eye on the earth.<p>— Norman Cousins, Cosmic Search magazine, volume 1, number 1, January 1979.
Omg, it's full of stars.<p>Very awesome video, and I love the reflection of the moon in the ocean at ~ 2:50. Sort of makes me appreciate just how much atmosphere we really have - the clouds look 2-dimensional compared to the glow on the horizon.
Watching this and trying to figure out where "I" am in each clip feels like I'm trying to take a Sporcle quiz. That said, when I can figure it out, it's often quite amazing some of the emergent patterns, like "the lights are in a grid---must be the US Midwest", or "the lights just... stop" as at the border between Egypt and Sudan (among others).
Please edit this to link directly to the video <a href="http://vimeo.com/32001208" rel="nofollow">http://vimeo.com/32001208</a> and with the correct title, "Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over"
I'm embarrassed by my ignorance of geography, but quite intrigued, so I'll ask: can anyone identify the crooked little vein of light that's centered at 3:48 and again (though to the left) at 4:38?
In the above video, at about 1:21 (and at other places, but most prominent at 1:21), there are flashes of light that can be seen from the ISS. Most of then are in coastal areas or in sea (small islands) and appear rather grouped than scattered equally without any definitive pattern. My guess is that they can be light houses.. but what do you think?
Thanks for posting this. I love these time lapse videos of Earth / space.<p>A few more I like:<p><a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110328.html" rel="nofollow">http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110328.html</a><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/22439234" rel="nofollow">http://vimeo.com/22439234</a> (same author)
At 2:50 a patch of light seems to track the space station on the surface of the Earth. Is this light from the sun deflecting off the hull? If so, would this be visible (as a sudden flash of light) from the surface of the Earth?
Does there seem to be something wrong with the audio on this to anybody else? It sounds like it's peaking out, or maybe flash is choking on it or something?