# Quite possibly the coolest view of Earth from space you'll ever see! (Time-lapse video from the ISS) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 21, 2012, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-coolest-view-of-earth-from-space-youll-ever-see-time-lapse-video-from-the-iss/628999 "2012-07-21T22:16:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-coolest-view-of-earth-from-space-youll-ever-see-time-lapse-video-from-the-iss/628999/1 "2012-07-21T22:16:11Z")
https://player.vimeo.com/video/45878034 Amazing, ain’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-coolest-view-of-earth-from-space-youll-ever-see-time-lapse-video-from-the-iss/628999/2 "2012-07-21T23:18:34Z")
That totally fucking rocked! ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-coolest-view-of-earth-from-space-youll-ever-see-time-lapse-video-from-the-iss/628999/3 "2012-07-21T23:51:59Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > That totally fucking rocked! Yup! ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-coolest-view-of-earth-from-space-youll-ever-see-time-lapse-video-from-the-iss/628999/4 "2012-07-21T23:56:54Z")
That’s neat! ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-coolest-view-of-earth-from-space-youll-ever-see-time-lapse-video-from-the-iss/628999/5 "2012-07-22T00:04:28Z")
If it left you wanting more, follow some of the links in the comments for some more stunning stuff. This one is particularly good: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/47ydgNvVlHU/maxresdefault.jpg "ISS Timelapse - edited with Surface of the Sun soundtrack") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47ydgNvVlHU) Same video as youtube link above, but with different soundtrack (so as not to play out “Surface of the Sun”): [![](https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/216166992-aaf707bb4404030919c9e8f53c6d262642ccc8febc17680efda7464c9f3e6fff-d "EARTH") ](https://vimeo.com/32001208) ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-coolest-view-of-earth-from-space-youll-ever-see-time-lapse-video-from-the-iss/628999/6 "2012-07-22T02:34:10Z")
Was that wavy green glow the aurora? ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-coolest-view-of-earth-from-space-youll-ever-see-time-lapse-video-from-the-iss/628999/7 "2012-07-22T03:15:28Z")
Very cool. And yes, **Malleus** , that was an aurora. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-coolest-view-of-earth-from-space-youll-ever-see-time-lapse-video-from-the-iss/628999/8 "2012-07-22T07:55:20Z")
Oh wow… ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-coolest-view-of-earth-from-space-youll-ever-see-time-lapse-video-from-the-iss/628999/9 "2012-07-22T18:14:58Z")
How come there isn’t a live webcam in the ISS? Or is there? Seems like a trivial engineering project nowdays. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-coolest-view-of-earth-from-space-youll-ever-see-time-lapse-video-from-the-iss/628999/10 "2012-07-23T13:57:05Z")
Does anyone know what the bright white flashes are? ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-coolest-view-of-earth-from-space-youll-ever-see-time-lapse-video-from-the-iss/628999/11 "2012-07-23T15:50:26Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > How come there isn’t a live webcam in the ISS? Or is there? Seems like a trivial engineering project nowdays. Bandwidth, maybe? The astronauts can email, tweet and web surf, but I’m not sure if it’s continuously available, how fast it is, etc. I agree, that’d be pretty cool. > [@singular1](#): > > Does anyone know what the bright white flashes are? Lightning. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-coolest-view-of-earth-from-space-youll-ever-see-time-lapse-video-from-the-iss/628999/12 "2012-07-23T21:41:36Z")
> [@singular1](#): > > Does anyone know what the bright white flashes are? If you mean the bright flashes on the ISS itself, that’s the sun. Remember, these are a bunch of sequential still photographs stitched together into a time-lapse video. So, what appears as a quick flash of light would have been a much longer period of light to someone sitting on the ISS observing in real-time. ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-coolest-view-of-earth-from-space-youll-ever-see-time-lapse-video-from-the-iss/628999/13 "2012-07-24T02:57:03Z")
Amazing, my hometown is brightly lit at 1:55.