In today’s Monday Movie, we spend four minutes flying around
the earth at a speed of 27,685 km/hr (17,500 mi/hr), enjoying views captured by
a succession of astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS).
The ISS is
a habitable artificial satellite in low Earth orbit, and despite speeding its
way through space at an altitude ranging between 330 km (205 mi) and 435 km
(270 mi), its pressurised modules, external trusses, solar arrays and other
components can often be seen with the naked eye from the earth.
Knate Myers has put together this video, View From the
ISS at Night, from footage made
freely available on various government space related sites, and it offers a unique
view of the planet, that few humans have had the joy of experiencing for
themselves.
Knate lives in Albuquerque, NM, and writes on his Vimeo
profile, that he has a passion for photography. Knate adds:
I love living in the southwest. It's a thrill to capture the sky, the storms and the stars out here. I especially love staying up all night, photographing the night sky far away from the city lights. I try to photograph in such a way that the results have just a slight twist from the ordinary. I want my photos to look the way I see them in my head.
While Knate uses video from other sources in this film, his
Vimeo page contains numerous short time-lapse films that he has captured
himself, all of which are worth checking out.
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Music by John Murphy - Sunshine (Adagio In D Minor)
Performed by the City Of Prague Philharmonic, available at Amazon…
Image Courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis
Laboratory,
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