Space Station Earth Videos Released By NASA Show Aurora Borealis In Time-Lapse (VIDEOS)

The International Space Station has been killing it with time-lapse videos of the earth lately, and now NASA's Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth has responded to popular demand and put up ten more.

From 240 miles up, you can see a lot of amazing stuff. In the video above, for example, the aurora toward the end looks different from any you could observe on Earth, because you can see the chaotic patterns it makes across a whole continent. In the "Mexico to New Brunswick" video below, watch out for the tiny satellite that appears around the 36-second mark and makes its way across the top of the screen.

The Johnson Space Center notes that some of the videos (including "Mexico to New Brunswick" and "Aurora over Northern U.S. and Canada," but not "Moonset over the Atlantic Ocean") "were taken at the rate of one frame per second, therefore the slower speed of the video represents nearly the true speed of the International Space Station." So even though these videos are compiled shot-by-shot, you're still seeing the views in nearly real-time.

Comments

[lensamy]

10:33 AM on 02/14/2012

Everyone has to see the aurora borealis/australis before they die! Btw i read somewhere that if we can "harness" the energy created by the northern light we could power the whole globes by days at the time. Amazing!

[NunyaBus99]

11:41 PM on 02/12/2012

Never get tired of these videos

[TAChem46032]

11:00 PM on 02/12/2012

Those videos are amazing! I'm awestruck just watching them.

[JamesBinKS]

07:54 PM on 02/09/2012

Those are Neat and shows why I wanted to be an Astronaut when i was a Kid before I knew that wasen't going to happen because of my vision

[oceanthyme3]

05:31 PM on 02/09/2012

Always seems unfortunate when some sophomoric idiot turns something this spectacular into a political rant....get a life and let us enjoy life at it's finest.

[PleaseNoPolitics]

03:24 PM on 02/09/2012

If there is a god...

He was tripping on acid when he created this...

[M4dwoman]

06:03 PM on 02/08/2012

That's amazing.

[OCCUPYHERALD]

02:19 PM on 02/08/2012

awesome

[Lo Chiaro]

01:27 PM on 02/08/2012

Much better than another O'Reilly rant.

[hattie54]

01:23 PM on 02/09/2012

Looking forward to his bigger rant when Obama is re-elected.:)

[nnealj1]

02:17 PM on 02/09/2012

Anything that makes O'Reilly unhappy delights me thoroughly...

[mcgowann]

02:32 PM on 02/09/2012

Only liberals could make the Aurora Borealis a political issue. Common sense please.

[ajbernhard]

01:10 PM on 02/08/2012

wow

[Claudia L]

12:23 PM on 02/08/2012

Every one of those videos are beautiful. Didn't see a lot of space Junk.