Video: Time-Lapse of the Space Station Flying Over Earth. Space-Porno.

This video is pure space porn. Time-lapse video of the International Space Station bombing over the surface of the Earth.

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In this video, James Drake took 600 photos from NASA’s Gateway to Astronaut Photography on Earth and combined them together into a 62-second reel. Here’s what you’re looking at:

This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and the Amazon. Also visible is the earths ionosphere (thin yellow line) and the stars of our galaxy.