Avatar - Pandora Nights (HD)

The beauty of Pandora at night.

Music: Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

This is night-time footage from James Cameron's Avatar: The Game (XBOX 360 version). In the game, one level in the Na'vi campaign (Swotulu) has a section of the map in perpetual night, but all levels will turn into night if you wait long enough. After about two hours it will transition into night and remain that way for about 20 minutes.
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Excerpt from http://james-camerons-avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Pandora

Pandora receives significant light from Alpha Centauri B (ACB). Because of this, for half the Polyphemian year its nights are never dark, but instead are more like Earthly dusk. At the closest point in its orbit, ACB is about 2,300 times as bright as Earth's full moon; at its farthest, it is still one hundred and seventy times as bright. During the other half of the year, when ACB is in the daytime sky, many Pandoran nights are illuminated both by Polyphemus's huge disk and reflected light from other nearby moons. Truly dark nights are uncommon. Polyphemus occasionally eclipses ACB at night for about one hundred minutes, but the light reflected by the planet still keeps the night from being dark.

When ACB shares the daytime sky with ACA, at its closest it adds about half a percent to the total illumination. When the 2 stars are close together in the sky, the effect of ACB's more orange light is unnoticeable, but as they separate over the years, an orange tint may be seen in areas shadowed from ACA's direct illumination. At its most distant, ACB is about 2,700 times dimmer than ACA and does not produce noticeable lighting effects. However, it still appears as a blindingly-bright tiny orange disk in the sky.

Because of its high axial tilt (29 degrees), Pandora exhibits considerable annual variation in the day-to-night ratio. In addition, its elliptical orbit produces seasonal temperature variations and a range in daytime illumination of about ten percent.
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[adri12536]

does any one here's the screaming on the background.?!!! or it's just meh.? 0.o

[MadMachinima]

@adri12536 I think it might just be you. Try unplugging your headphones, maybe your apartment building is on fire?

Just kidding... it's banshees (the flying creatures) squawking in the background.

[aaronhilton93]

how to record the video?

[MadMachinima]

@aaronhilton93 I used a Hauppauge HD-PVR to record the XBOX footage onto a PC.

[JAMIEGRANTHAM32]

I bet there is a planet out there that is like this... LUCKY PLANET!

[FALSEandHOMOSEXUALL]

This is earth, after a couple shrooms

[murdertramp19]

this is beautiful

[aristophilis]

@JAMIEGRANTHAM32

Of course there are planets, i.e. moons, like Pandora out there.

Proof is Our own Planet. Beautiful, majestic and grand. It's a good place to call home...

[brianmasivo2]

@DuMbAzZ97 is not a country is Alabama!

[DuMbAzZ97]

witch country is this? XD

[KentaJackson]

@adri12536 Maybe your neighbors are having sex: D

[Psickarka]

It is Beautiful :D :D :D

[NekoTakoyaki]

@JAMIEGRANTHAM32 if so it's best to not be discovered by humans... i mean take a look at our earth *takes a look at earth* let's just be happy that there is a planet like that out there if ya know what i mean ^-^