This is pretty neat: on June 6, a couple of weeks before the summer solstice, astronauts on the International Space Station pointed a camera to the north and took pictures as they orbited the Earth. Taken over the course of about an hour – 2/3 of a full orbit – this was made into a video where you can see the Sun setting and rising again. What’s cool, though, is the Sun never completely sets.
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The view from the International Space Station is always pretty cool, but when an astronaut points the camera at the Earth’s horizon and takes a series of short exposures, adding them together gives a view right out of Haight-Ashbury... Read Post
A few weeks ago, International Space Station astronaut Soichi Noguchi took an amazing picture of Endeavour re-entering Earth’s atmosphere. He has been busily snapping away at the Earth and posting the pictures on his Twitter feed. Y... Read Post
There have been a lot of time lapse videos made using pictures taken by astronauts on the International Space Station as they orbit the Earth. These all tend to show the lights of cities streaming by, or storms, or the spectacular a... Read Post