ISS Marks 20 Years Orbiting Earth With Longest Timelapse Ever Made In Space (petapixel.com) 54
AmiMoJo writes: The International Space Station has been in orbit for 20 years, with the first module Zarya (Russian for "dawn") being launched on the 20th of November in 1998. To celebrate, the European Space Agency (ESA) has released the longest timelapse video made in space to date. "Captured by German astronaut Alexander Gerst, the time-lapse takes you on two trips around the world with labels marking countries that pass through the frame," reports PetaPixel. "Traveling at 28,800 km/h (17896 mph), it takes the station just 90 minutes to orbit the Earth. 21,375 individual photos shot on October 6th went into the video, which is played back at 12.5 times faster than real time."
Pretty nice... (Score:4, Insightful)
Great job on the video, and the music too...
Just one quibble, from reading the headline I at first was thinking I would see a 20-year time-lapse of some part of Earth, that would be pretty amazing. Oh well! This was still a really excellent trip around the globe.
Re: Pretty nice... (Score:1)
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I'm not sure what you are getting at, but I didn't see any ads during the video...
I mean, it's NASA, what would they even advertise?
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You can see 32 year timelapses like that here -> https://earthengine.google.com... [google.com]
Spacewalk time (Score:2)
Time for a spacewalk, and clean the lens.
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Darn, it didn’t fly over the US (Score:3, Funny)
I wanted to see all the red and blue states...
Super cool (Score:2)
What a great video. My niggles: 1) dirt on the lens. Surely with all our science? 2) Iris takes too long to open when crossing into night. I was surprised how fast the orbit precesses, had to look up how that works (it's because Earth isn't a sphere.) The lightning flashes over the Pacific are super cool.
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Hmm, make that dust on the sensor.
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Right, duh.
Re:Super cool (Score:4, Informative)
No. The circumference of the earth at the equator is 24901 miles. From north to south pole, it's 24860. You're not going to notice a 41 mile difference in that video.
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Iris takes too long to open when crossing into night.
The Iris didn't close until the space station itself went into the Earth's shadow. Annoying, but understandable given all the stuff (solar panels, etc) in the frame.
Why is it blured between Beijing and Shanghai? (Score:4)
I don't get it. Is this some kind of compression artifact? Intentional redaction?
The camera is stationary WRT ISS so how does blurriness follow the same position on the globe when everything around it and before and after remains in focus?
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Maybe just a kind of diffuse lighting, possibly greenhouses ?
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Looks like cloud cover, or maybe smog. Because it's always at night it's hard to tell.
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How many pics does it take... (Score:3)
...to convince a flat-earther they're wrong?
Apparently 21,376.
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This isn't convincing. The curvature is caused by the fisheye lense.
...as it is moved around what shape?
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This isn't convincing. The curvature is caused by the fisheye lense.
True. But what is convincing is that after 90 minutes you come back pretty much to where you started, with some shift due to the Earth's rotation.