The timelapse video that rules them all

December 25, 2014 3:01 AM

A 6-minute video of Earth from space, featuring aurora borealis, cities at night, storms, and other wonders, created by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst from 12,500 images taken during his ISS Blue Dot mission.
posted by elgilito (9 comments total)

I liked the nighttime parts most of all -- other than that one poster of the earth at night, I don't think I'd ever seen that view before. Beautiful.
posted by Dip Flash at 5:27 AM on December 25, 2014

Does the southern hemisphere get its own southern lights?
posted by mareli at 7:28 AM on December 25, 2014

Well, duh!

So we might be seeing either in this timelapse video, cool!
posted by mareli at 7:31 AM on December 25, 2014

You like the nighttime parts, you say?
posted by localroger at 9:43 AM on December 25, 2014 [2 favorites]

I'm just... I can't... we're all on this thing together. Everything is amazing.
posted by ethnomethodologist at 3:14 PM on December 25, 2014 [1 favorite]

After flipping through the NYT 2014 year in pictures a few posts up, this was the appropriate antidote.
posted by tempythethird at 5:14 PM on December 25, 2014

I just watched "Gravity"... this has a very different feeling after that experience...
posted by HuronBob at 8:30 PM on December 25, 2014

The exquisite thinness, greenness, fragility of the atmosphere makes me gasp.

Thank you so much for this link!
posted by Jesse the K at 8:22 AM on December 26, 2014

yes, thank you. accurate post title. i like the part where they launch the probe
posted by paradise at 9:33 AM on December 26, 2014