Stunning time-lapse sequence shows Earth from ISS [VIDEO]

HughMcB · #1 by **HughMcB** » Nov 15, 2011 5:45 pm

ASCII: 1 : Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS BYE
by Michael König
3 days ago

Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by Ron Garan, Satoshi Furukawa and the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011, who to my knowledge shot these pictures at an altitude of around 350 km. All credit goes to them. I intend to upload a FullHD-version presently.

HD, refurbished, smoothed, retimed, denoised, deflickered, cut, etc. All in all I tried to keep the looks of the material as original as possible, avoided adjusting the colors and the like, since in my opinion the original footage itself already has an almost surreal and aestethical visual nature.

...continues... [w/ VIDEO]

Can't embed vimeo vid but follow the link and watch.... it's frickin awesome! :awesome:

Fallible · #2 by **Fallible** » Nov 15, 2011 5:55 pm

HughMcB · #3 by **HughMcB** » Nov 15, 2011 5:58 pm

I give it; five awsumz!
:awesome:

Fallible · #4 by **Fallible** » Nov 15, 2011 6:16 pm

The Destroyer of Worlds was transfixed by it.

HughMcB · #5 by **HughMcB** » Nov 15, 2011 6:30 pm

Imagine being up there, seeing that. I'd sell my family into slavery for the chance. Unfortunately no such scheme exists, yet.

Spearthrower · #6 by **Spearthrower** » Nov 15, 2011 6:32 pm

Yep, that was awesome in the prior to the word being massively overused sense!

twistor59 · #7 by **twistor59** » Nov 15, 2011 7:16 pm

Is it just me, or if you look carefully at that awesome video, do you not see a small expansion in the earth's radius ?

HughMcB · #8 by **HughMcB** » Nov 15, 2011 7:17 pm

You can wind it back to a sphere.

Fallible · #9 by **Fallible** » Nov 15, 2011 7:18 pm

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Made of Stars · **#10** by **Made of Stars** » Nov 15, 2011 7:24 pm

Stunning!

LIFE · **#11** by **LIFE** » Nov 15, 2011 7:31 pm

Amazing video but please mute the audio when watching.

punter18 · **#12** by **punter18** » Nov 15, 2011 7:32 pm

IMO, had they labeled the continents/countries they were "rolling" over, it would have enhanced the viewing pleasure even more.

The most fascinating part about the video was the thundering clouds!

Fallible · **#13** by **Fallible** » Nov 15, 2011 7:51 pm

I know, how cool was that! I agree about labelling the countries and continents too. I was trying to figure out where we were the whole time.

smudge · **#14** by **smudge** » Nov 15, 2011 8:54 pm

Just stunning....