What does it feel like to fly over planet Earth?

A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, El Salvador, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Lake Titicaca, and the Amazon. Also visible is the earths ionosphere (thin yellow line), a satellite (55sec) and the stars of our galaxy.

Smooth Version;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdDEpC...

25fps Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcVVOn...

Raw data was downloaded from;

The Gateway To Astronaut Photography of Earth
"http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/mrf.htm ".

Virtualdub was used to create the final movie.

You can see more beautiful images of our universe at;
http://infinity-imagined.tumblr.com/


How big is the universe?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tqdc6...

• Category

  Science & Technology

[777SuperTone]

I want to skydive from the I.S.S.

[Daniel Wallis]

Looks like Earth, from The Solar System.

[fatpichu]

Не все русский

[Milan Kragujević]

Мы все знаем что!

[Milan Kragujević]

Иди к ебене матери!

[Alex Honeyy]

Yes you can drink vodka up there.

[campeau7]

You probably don't. You would be stuck in low-earth orbit for a while.

[Daniel Wallis]

although it would take a lot to slow you down from the speed of the ISS (17,300 mph) before you entered the atmosphere and burned into organic vapor lol

[Daniel Wallis]

used FFS

[Daniel Wallis]

You would need to first use some sort of booster on your body to propel yourself in the opposite direction of the I.S.S.'s momentum when you jumped. Then your angular velocity to the earth would be slowed enough for the Earth's gravity to actually cause you to drop in elevation.