http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/107089

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"Shooting locations in order of appearance: 1. Aurora Borealis Pass over the United States at Night 2. Aurora Borealis and eastern United States at Night 3. Aurora Australis from Madagascar to southwest of Australia 4. Aurora Australis south of Australia 5. Northwest coast of United States to Central South America at Night 6. Aurora Australis from the Southern to the Northern Pacific Ocean 7. Halfway around the World 8. Night Pass over Central Africa and the Middle East 9. Evening Pass over the Sahara Desert and the Middle East 10. Pass over Canada and Central United States at Night 11. Pass over Southern California to Hudson Bay 12. Islands in the Philippine Sea at Night 13. Pass over Eastern Asia to Philippine Sea and Guam 14. Views of the Mideast at Night 15. Night Pass over Mediterranean Sea 16. Aurora Borealis and the United States at Night 17. Aurora Australis over Indian Ocean 18. Eastern Europe to Southeastern Asia at Night"

11/14/2011 3:39:21 PM

ntlb

11/14/2011 3:42:44 PM

That was neat.

11/14/2011 3:47:18 PM

entrancing

11/14/2011 3:52:15 PM

didn't know the atmosphere glowed like that, guess it has something to do w/ the low-light/whatever camera

11/14/2011 4:07:44 PM

very neat

11/14/2011 4:08:42 PM

Cool stuff.

Houston: ISS, this is Houston, today we're gonna need you to reintegrate combobulators 231 through 457, conduct science experiments 45b-e and the 46 series in it's entirety, and clean out all the garbage smashers on the detention level.

ISS: uh, negative Houston, we're just gonna stare out the window again. over.

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"didn't know the atmosphere glowed like that, guess it has something to do w/ the low-light/whatever camera"

It's sunlight scattering from the atmosphere and bouncing around the earth to the ISS. unless you mean the borealis. then it's something different.

[Edited on November 14, 2011 at 4:16 PM. Reason : []

11/14/2011 4:13:49 PM

I forgot that ISS had a detention level.

11/14/2011 4:15:54 PM

All the lightning was pretty sweet

11/14/2011 4:29:12 PM

that was cool. that satellite was fuckin bookin it. how fast is it traveling?

11/14/2011 5:14:41 PM

11/14/2011 5:37:23 PM

that was awesome!!

there was one city I kept trying to pinpoint, though... it looked like a giant starburst - was that Atlanta?

11/14/2011 5:49:56 PM

Impossible. Atlanta is shaped like a giant mamba.

11/14/2011 5:51:27 PM

haha

there was one part that looked like a snake

11/14/2011 5:55:24 PM

The storms were so neat

great video

11/14/2011 6:03:08 PM

^ yes!!!! those moments were my favorites

11/14/2011 6:17:38 PM

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"that was cool. that satellite was fuckin bookin it. how fast is it traveling?"

that was probably multiple times actual speed, like 10-30x

It still moves damn fast, you can watch it pass over with your naked eye on a clear night depending on the orbit right after sunset, where the sun's rays are still hitting the ISS but not earth below. It only takes like five minutes to pass in and out of our field of view.

11/14/2011 6:56:06 PM

That was pretty damn cool

11/14/2011 7:03:58 PM

Wow that's pretty cool.

11/14/2011 7:32:25 PM

So how much pot do they consume per mission?

11/14/2011 10:47:58 PM

Love the lightning

11/14/2011 10:48:48 PM

unbelievable. i had a quick 5 second gif of that i saw before. but never saw the full video like that.



we are not of this world. we are indeed star stuff.

11/14/2011 10:57:01 PM

It's really easy to find NC on there. You can see the outter banks in that one video.

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11/16/2011 12:21:43 AM

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awesome!

11/16/2011 1:17:23 AM

very cool

11/16/2011 1:25:00 AM

Cool! Especially with the volume muted.

11/16/2011 7:31:30 AM

To answer the question on how fast the ISS travels... it takes about 90 mins for it to orbit the earth once so that's about 5 miles/second.

11/16/2011 9:18:46 AM

could someone make me a screensaver with this video?

11/16/2011 9:19:55 AM

that's one of the first things I thought about when I watched it (I want a screensaver, lol)

11/16/2011 9:37:18 AM

i will paypal 5 lafta bucks if someone makes a screen saver

11/16/2011 9:41:13 AM

I want a live wallpaper for my laptop that will show thermal conduction effects of the surface of the sun. This is modeled in some games pretty well, Galactic Civilizations II, and some other things have it as well. This as a SS would also be nice.

11/16/2011 10:32:33 AM

So no one?

Damn. I want a actual live wallpaper. Something actually interesting / useful to look at. WHERE'S MY SURFACE OF THE SUN ANIMATED WALLPAPER DAMNIT!!

12/1/2011 11:19:26 AM

[Edited on December 1, 2011 at 11:23 AM. Reason : I can make it bigger, if you need me to]

12/1/2011 11:22:06 AM

Well played. But more like:


BEAP BEAP!

12/1/2011 11:24:17 AM

i showed this video to my astronomy class

12/1/2011 11:26:44 AM

That wallpaper is baller.

12/1/2011 12:59:30 PM

this would be better:

12/8/2011 12:48:34 PM

12/8/2011 6:48:15 PM

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/JavaSSOP/JavaSSOP.html
Web Based ISS visible sighting prediction
(this used to be J-PASS at the johnson space flight center site, but it's deprecated)

http://www.stoff.pl/
Excellent software that can track hundreds of objects and predict visible passes. Yes it's 6 years old, but it pulls the most recent data from NASA every couple days. I've used it to see probably 30-40 passes.

12/9/2011 12:53:48 AM