ISS Passes Over Stormy Africa (w/Milky Way)

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This video was taken by the crew of Expedition 30 on board the International Space Station. The sequence of shots was taken December 29, 2011 from 20:55:05 to 21:14:09 GMT, on a pass from over central Africa, near southeast Niger, to the South Indian Ocean, southeast of Madagascar. The complete pass is over southern Africa to the ocean, focusing on the lightning flashes from local storms and the Milky Way rising over the horizon.

The Milky Way can be spotted as a hazy band of white light at the beginning of the video. The pass continues southeast toward the Mozambique Channel and Madagascar. The Lovejoy Comet can be seen very faintly near the Milky Way. The pass ends as the sun is rising over the dark ocean.

Video courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center

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[JMajorLITD]

Must be a sad, angry little existence.

[tommygoogyx]

Am I right in wanting NASA to put a permanent stream of this camera up online? :P

[JMajorLITD]

Well, fresh water, yes.

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[Gabe Newell]

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[EKO Beatz]

would someone in space be able to see the stars like this with their naked eyes or would the sun's light wash out the starlight, even if one were on the night side of the earth, because most time-lapse footage of the night sky is shot in a low light setting, and it would be nice to know what space would really look like from space, given that most of the amazing photos taken by the Hubble are actually not as accurately what would be seen in the visible light part of the spectrum