More Breathtaking Space Station Timelapse Videos

by Fraser Cain on October 19, 2011

Remember the amazing night-time timelapse video that James Drake stitched together from space station photos? Well, he’s gone back through the astronaut photographs and create six more videos. They’re shorter… but they’re AMAZING. Daytime, night time, auroras, it’s all there. Check them out.

Glowing ripples in the electromagnetic field of planet Earth.


Our planet sings with electricity

Charged particles glow in earths magnetic field

Night time pass over North America

Daytime pass over North America

Daytime pass over North America (2)

Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today. He's also the co-host of Astronomy Cast with Dr. Pamela Gay. He's the forum co-administrator of the Bad Astronomy/Universe Today forum with Bad Astronomer Phil Plait.

  • Anonymous

    Those borealis lights involve a fair amount of energy.

    LC

    • Anonymous

      Yeah.. got my filings tingling even from here!

      I wonder what Nicoli Tesla would do about it – given today’s science and understanding? Perhaps he would suggest building a method of collection for re-distribution and use? say to power interplanetary probes? BUZZZ- ZAP!

  • Todd P Phillips

    I’ve often wondered about how the auroras would look from space.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks Farzier for posting those beautiful.. and mind blowing images! Also thanks to James Drake – keep on creating those great views! NICE!

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