FEATURED VIDEO: Flight Over Planet Earth
By Bitmeizer // January 12, 2014
Time-lapse sequence FROM THE ISS
ABOVE VIDEO: Inspired by a version of the opening sequence of this clip called ‘What does it feel like to fly over planet Earth?,’ this is the original time-lapse sequence taken on the International Space Station via NASA, including the spectacular Aurora Australis sequences, and set to a soundtrack that almost matches the awe and wonder one feels when you see our home from above. (VIDEO: Uploaded by Bitmeizer)
Images: eol.jsc.nasa.gov
Music: ‘Freedom Fighters’ by Two Steps from Hell
Inspiration: youtu.be/74mhQyuyELQ
Editor: David Peterson
To those brave men and women who fly alone in the night to take us to the stars, we salute you.
Sequences:
1. North-to-south down the western coast of North and South America.
2. North-to-south over Florida, the Bahamas and other Caribbean islands.
3. South-East Asia, approaching the Philippine Sea
4. Western Europe, from France through Italy, Greece, Turkey and the Middle East.
5. Aurora Australis, over the Indian Ocean, approaching Australia
6. Aurora Australis, over the Indian Ocean.
7. Aurora Australis, unknown location in the Southern Hemisphere.
Featured on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120305.html
FROM NASA: Many wonders are visible when flying over the Earth at night. A compilation of such visual spectacles was captured recently from the International Space Station (ISS) and set to rousing music.
Passing below are white clouds, orange city lights, lightning flashes in thunderstorms, and dark blue seas. On the horizon is the golden haze of Earth’s thin atmosphere, frequently decorated by dancing auroras as the video progresses.
The green parts of auroras typically remain below the space station, but the station flies right through the red and purple auroral peaks. Solar panels of the ISS are seen around the frame edges. The ominous wave of approaching brightness at the end of each sequence is just the dawn of the sunlit half of Earth, a dawn that occurs every 90 minutes.
