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Check Out This Time-Lapse Video Of Photos Taken From The International Space Station

Peter Murray
Aug 21, 2012

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Galileo was right when he said seeing the Earth from space "would look to you more splendid than the moon."

When I was growing up the coolest way to share in the experience of space exploration was to call a ‘1-900’ number and listen in on the communication exchange between the space shuttle and mission control. I used to listen with rapt attention while my parents paid for the call at 25 cents per minute. We have certainly come a long way.

The International Space Station has now been occupied by humans for 10 years, and there are so many ways us wannabe astronauts can share in the experience. NASA recently released a time-lapse video of images taken from the station. Chock full of colorful auroras, lightning flashes spread throughout the cloud cover, and nighttime landscapes spotted with city lights, the view from space is truly beautiful. No phone call necessary, only smartphone. Ain't technology great?

Click here for NASA's full collection of Earth observation videos.

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Cutting across the middle of the image are several clouds alit with lightning flashes. (Source: NASA)

[image credit: ReelNASA via YouTube]
images: ReelNASA
video: ReelNASA

Peter Murray was born in Boston in 1973. He earned a PhD in neuroscience at the University of Maryland, Baltimore studying gene expression in the neocortex. Following his dissertation work he spent three years as a post-doctoral fellow at the same university studying brain mechanisms of pain and motor control. He completed a collection of short stories in 2010 and has been writing for Singularity Hub since March 2011.

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