The International Space Station is used as a hub for medical research, various space based sciences and as a means for international cooperation, it’s also a pretty cool place to Earth gaze, as was demonstrated by ISS crew member Don Pettit.
Pettit took a bunch of footage from one of the stations windows that face earth and then placed those images into a time-lapse demonstration of earth.
Notice the northern lights, over electrified cities and other odd changes to the earth as it rotates through space.
Here’s the video:
The movie goes by quickly, but damn New York City, Japan and most of China, how about turning down the neon lights a little bit.
