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4. Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS
3 months ago
1. WEISS
2 years ago
Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions
28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October,
2011, who to my knowledge shot these pictures at an altitude of around 350 km.
All credit goes to them.

HD, refurbished, smoothed, retimed, denoised, deflickered, cut, etc.
All in all I tried to keep the looks of the material as original as possible,
avoided adjusting the colors and the like, since in my opinion the original
footage itself already has an almost surreal and aestethical visual nature.

Music: Jan Jelinek | Do Dekor, faitiche back2001
w+p by Jan Jelinek, published by scape Publishing / Universal
janjelinek.com | faitiche.de

Image Courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory,
NASA Johnson Space Center, The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
eol.jsc.nasa.gov

Editing: Michael König | koenigm.com

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
  • Ben 3 months ago
    Wow amazing! So beautiful! Added to vimeo.com/channels/hdtime and vimeo.com/channels/1341

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  • Sebastien LABAN 3 months ago
    I agree! Really Amazing ! :)
  • Tom Lowe pro 3 months ago
    Epic.
  • Charlie McRae 3 months ago
    for sure.
  • Sean Slobodan plus 3 months ago
    this is unbelievable stuff.
  • James Pontifex plus 3 months ago
    It's amazing how well the cameras pick up the light of the cities below. The world looks like a living organism. The cameras we have now are getting so sensitive, you can shoot video under just moonlight: vimeo.com/11542495
  • Sherpas Cinema plus 3 months ago
    holy guacamole.
  • Send It Studios plus 3 months ago
    Wow, this world is cool.
  • HDtimelapse.net 3 months ago
  • iamkalaniprince plus 3 months ago
    TL : I wonder if they used one.. The images are amazing! I'm sure Nasa is in ubermegapixeliso-land by now though.. What a gorgeous planet we have to love on.

    All is love, Kalani-
  • Amru Essam 3 months ago
    Damen this is Soo Epic .... what is that Green thing .. is it the Aura
  • Chris 3 months ago
    worst music choice for a night time timelapse video.. EVER!
  • Glenn Perry 3 months ago
    i think "night time timelapse" is perhaps a slight understatement.
  • F9photo pro 3 months ago
    All I can say is WOW!!! Amazing!! I have not watched a Vimeo video over and over in a long time.... but on a tech note, I wish they had a "lens skirt" to reduce the window reflections on some shots.
  • Steven M. Bumgardner 3 months ago
    I gotta check that planet out sometime! It looks awesome!
  • Matczuba 3 months ago
    Best music choice for a time lapse video... EVER!
  • wemakesoap 3 months ago
    love the aurora!! i think it is not a night timelapse. there is no night or day in space ;) this is a planet timelapse. an incredible one! and the only one i guess, or do you know any other shot from space??
  • Steve Brunton 2 months ago
    The music works...
  • Brad Kremer plus 2 months ago
    It doesn't get much more EPIC than that!
  • Amazing!! :)
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  • The Film Artist plus 3 months ago
    As Ben said 'wow and amazing', just can't match this, you have given us a glimpse of something nearly all of us will never see and too so beautifully :) [TFA30]
    vimeo.com/channels/worldhd
    Enveloped by a green aura, the world is our home, you just proved it, peace, love and respect! :)
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  • Circadian Pictures plus 3 months ago
    Nice work, Michael!
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  • Jan Fröjdman plus 3 months ago
    Beautiful. Let's save the world despite of a rapidly growing population of the world.
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  • I.T. Tran 3 months ago
    Pretty sick!!!
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  • Blind Monk pro 3 months ago
    Fantastic! How wonderful, thanks.
  • blackwatch plus 3 months ago
    indeed..extraordinary
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  • etchysketch plus 3 months ago
    Awesome!!!
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  • Noah Schloss 3 months ago
    This is amazing. Awesome music choice.
  • jmarcreichow 3 months ago
    Perfect addition indeed. A wonderful montage altogether.
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  • Robert Paluch 3 months ago
    amazing work !!!
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  • That was amazing. Awesome, that's the word. Good job!
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  • ADW plus 3 months ago
    Fricking awesome!
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  • Hasil Aliyev 3 months ago
    stunning!!!!!!!most beautifull timelapse i have ever seen!!! nice work..
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  • Patryk Kizny plus 3 months ago
    Can you guys share some info about this camera? Was that FLI or something like that? Or a proprietary technology by NASA?
  • Edmund Foster 3 months ago
    Nikon D3S - nothing fancy (although you do need a trillion dollar space station as well)
  • yugyug 3 months ago
    maybe this is a dumb question, but do they just hang the camera outside the space station on a mount or something? Or is it from behind glass within the station? If the former, how does a Nikon D3S handle space and all the things that go with it anyway (vacuum? solar winds? harsh sunlight? etc)??
  • Nikon France 3 months ago
    The photos were taken from the inside. But there's also a specific "spacesuit" for the cameras : wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/07/nasa-wraps-its-space-flashes-in-cute-little-spacesuits/
  • mark watts plus 3 months ago
    Is the source video available for use in a metaphysical film? We'd like to use just about 30 seconds of it in the highest quality possible.
  • Uncle GroOve 3 months ago
    All the raw material can be found here:
    eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Videos/CrewEarthObservationsVideos/

    Cheerz!
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  • Andrew Mohrer plus 3 months ago
    Unreal!!!
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  • Paul Mckenna 3 months ago
    Absolutely Incredible!
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  • Sinan İpek 3 months ago
    To click on "like" button is not enough for this video. This is a jewel. I felt like I'm a god at Olympos!
    By the way, four questions:
    1. Is the green curve ionosphere?
    2. Is the curvature of the earth wide lens deformation?
    3. Is it long exposure photography?
    4. Is it what it looks like to the human eye?
  • Ozcan Celik 3 months ago
    I have an answer for your 3th question:

    No. It's not long exposure. But I think they use very high ISO CCD Cameras for scientific research.
    How I know that: If you enter the NASA site it says 11 Second footage "Oct. 6, 2011, from 19:46:23 to 19:58:41 GMT." for Sahara Desert and the Middle East. So 11 second time lapse takes 12 minutes. Every ~2,5 Seconds they take photos. We can't say Long Exposure for 1-2 seconds.

    Also I think green curve is ionosphere.
  • chippy 3 months ago
    To 2 & 4: Nope it is not a Lens deformation, it is the curvature as seen by the naked eye. Earth from far away just looks like that.
  • Edmund Foster 3 months ago
    Shot using a Nikon D3S with 17-35mm F2.8 and 14-24mm F2.8 lenses
  • Erik Vaet 3 months ago
    I bet theres a lot easier to capture stars considering exposure, since there is a lot less factors messing up your shots such as light polution.
  • Jellyfish Collective 2 months ago
    To 1: this phenomenon is called airglow - light sent out by ions created by uv light recombinating at night. Still looks amazing.
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  • Manu Beaudon plus 3 months ago
    Waow! I always wanted to go in space, consider it done! Thank you!
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  • Matthew Gant plus 3 months ago
    This is simply magnificent.
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  • Aaron Leverton-Ferrar 3 months ago
    This is unreal!
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  • Jason Sondhi staff 3 months ago
    Oh yeah, that's pretty cool. Especially liked the lightning storm.
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  • jimmy pats 3 months ago
    yesssssssss
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  • Sébastien 3 months ago
    Awesome !
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  • Nicolay Kjærnet 3 months ago
    Fuck this shit, I'm going to space.
  • Benjamin Dowie 3 months ago
    I'll come with you.
  • Peter Fitts 3 months ago
    Just by your comment alone I would know I would never want be in a space capsule alone with the both of you...
  • Edna Barrón 3 months ago
    I've looked into it. It costs like 9 million dollars just to fly to the edge of the Earth. I can't imagine how much you'd have to pay for a rocket ship seat. 99% of humans on Earth will never see space.
  • Christian Rodriguez 2 months ago
    99.9
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  • Dave Martin plus 3 months ago
    Wow, very very cool
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  • Sandra Pagano 3 months ago
    fantastic work ;)
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  • Aaron 3 months ago
    seriously one of the coolest things my eyeballs have ever seen. so awesome. love the fades you did, and clarity of everything.
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  • Joseph Woodhouse plus 3 months ago
    One of the best videos I have seen at Vimeo! Thank you!
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  • Jônatan Fernandez 3 months ago
    Beautiful, thank you.
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  • Shelley Noble 3 months ago
    Glorious! Thank you to everyone who made seeing the images that way possible.

    I'd put it on super slow motion with an earth meditation voice over for the strongest ever visualization possible.
  • Ken Danieli 3 months ago
    Highly redundant.
  • Rob Record 3 months ago
    I like this idea.
  • Shelley Noble 3 months ago
    Thank you, Rob.
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  • Joe Moya plus 3 months ago
    Wow... now those are timelapse shots your not just going to find just anywhere...
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  • Geovanni 3 months ago
    This is amazing!!!
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  • clayton hillyard 3 months ago
    blown away, i wanna do a timelapse in space!
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  • Gavin Yeah 3 months ago
    Amazing!
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  • Chuck Reynolds 3 months ago
    awesome. thank you for this.
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  • Divine 3 months ago
    what the glowing lights coming off the shield around the earth or is that part of the video going backward.
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  • Sam Morrill staff 3 months ago
    Incredible. One of my favorite videos on Vimeo.
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  • Richard Gluck plus 3 months ago
    wow, this is the best timelapse i've ever seen. and what amazes me most is how surreal it looks. i mean, almost unreal.

    definitely the envy of every timelapse photographer still on planet earth.
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  • Yannick Barthe plus 3 months ago
    Awesome ! Unreal and dreamy.. amazing quality ! Thanks for sharing this beautiful video !
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  • oren krimchansky 3 months ago
    what can i say? God did a good job! thanks for this breath taking video!
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  • Jason Mar 3 months ago
    wow - unreal man...great great job. Best timelapse ever! No one will ever be able to touch this one...
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  • Jessica Sales 3 months ago
    Indeed. God did a good job. Amazing.
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  • mike ammann 3 months ago
    A-m-a-z-i-n-g !
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  • Dustin Farrell plus 3 months ago
    I gotta get me one of those satellite dollies . . .

    Mind . . . blown.
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  • Max Zajber 3 months ago
    That's more than awesome...mind blowing
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  • Juan Su 3 months ago
    Dang! These images are stunning! I'd like to see more but perhaps slower this time so we could get more time to admire the images captured. Thanks!!!
  • Homer Samson 3 months ago
    Yes definitely slower.
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  • artnau 3 months ago
    Absolutely amazing and awesome music. Shared at artnau.com
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  • Fran Tepper 3 months ago
    Wow!
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  • Fred 3 months ago
    Just fantastic !!
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  • Jaakko Posti 3 months ago
    Unreal!!
  • Homer Samson 3 months ago
    No.
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  • Andy Bitterer 3 months ago
    Now that's what i call a vantage point. Stunning.
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  • Conman 3 months ago
    Brilliant. Great work Michael.
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  • Warholian plus 3 months ago
    This is the best footage our our planet yet. Amazing. Stunning. Wow.
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  • Mike Kobal plus 3 months ago
    what a trip :D!
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  • Starbase64 3 months ago
    The music contains a lot of crackling noise, but the video is good.
  • Edna Barrón 3 months ago
    haha. Is that a joke? It's glitch electronic. It's supposed to have crackling noise in it. LOL
  • Starbase64 3 months ago
    I do not like it.
  • Justin Jeter 3 months ago
    Interesting how divided people are on the music. I understand that electronic music isn't for everyone, but I LOVE this track -- so much so, in fact, that I've added Jan Jelinek as a Pandora station!
  • Greg Harms 3 months ago
    Count me as one who does not enjoy wondering if my speakers are broken while watching such beautiful images.
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  • CS² 3 months ago
    Stunning!
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