Earth - A 24-hour cycle as seen from space.

Captured on 10th of March, 2009, this time-lapse footage gives us a rare glimpse of the Earth revolving from day to night in a 24-hour cycle.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• earth
• space
• astronomy
• sun
• moon
• satellite
• orbit
• planet
• gravity
• science
• astrology
• stars
• galaxy
• universe

[sumitino]

the "dots" are hot pixels on the ccd camera - they are not stars in between the planet, in the planet or anywhere near the planet. the stars are not bending or moving or anything like that...

[specialKismyname]

"stars between the camera and the Earth"

lololololololololololoolololol­olololololol

[darkninja0200]

does anyone else see an eyeball?

[nrm981bt]

This is from a Dish Network satellite 

[serjito87]

@ytmoog thanks for the reply, I was wondering why we can see the "stars" inside of the planet circle xD now I read that coment about the "dots" that the camera lense creates.. xD

[skateboy159]

its cool at 0:46 0:50 u can see the moon

[Mistermuggz]

Very nice!



[MrRicharddale]

Fake? no way. this is real. Time to pop your bubbles but we dont live in the stone age. This footage is also live on dish earth on the dish network.

And to the guy who said "next time animate the clouds" put your bifocals on on look harder. They are moving.

[dimplestrabe]

@dimplestrabe On second thoughts. Yeh. It's fake. But a good fake.

[dimplestrabe]

@sumitino I'd be interested to know how there are 'hot pixels' on a black subject.

Try this. Go into a darkened room and bump the ISO up on your camera and take a snap. You'll still get black. You won't get hot pixels as there's no light hitting the CCD.

That said, I can't provide a better explaination, so maybe I'm wrong.

[MadsterV]

@chadscience1 yeah it looks like all unrealistic and stuff

XD

[pamibeau]

Wrong perspective here. If it was the Earth rotating, we would have a complete ball all the time, see the continents cruise by, and never see the Sun.

This is more likely a view from a satellite of some sort orbiting the Earth in a fixed amount of time (depending of the altitude [!] of its orbit).

Great video all the same, mind you! §:c)