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Saturday Morning Wonder

By lex, on February 4th, 2012

Low earth orbit imagery sequences from ISS 28 & 29. The in-cloud and cloud-to-cloud lightning is particularly cool.

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February 4th, 2012 | Tags: | Category: science

11 comments to Saturday Morning Wonder

  • hornetgunner
    February 4, 2012 at 8:09 am

    Fantastic views of auroras that look almost too good to be real. Impressive and awe inspiring

  • Kris, in New England
    February 4, 2012 at 8:20 am

    After the hellacious week I put in, this is a much-needed reminder of how small we really are.

    And yeah, the auroras were breathtaking, as were what I have to believe were thunder and lightning storms in random places. Very cool.

  • MissBirdlegs in AL
    February 4, 2012 at 8:31 am

    Absolutely beautiful! Flying into Birmingham from California one night in 1971 about 9PM, there was heat lightning all around and was about the coolest thing I ever saw.

  • Sim
    February 4, 2012 at 8:33 am

    Told you Lex.

  • TG McCoy
    February 4, 2012 at 8:52 am

    I’ve always been a “light this candle!” kind of guy.
    I’m just amazed at this. Thanks, Lex..

  • SJBill
    February 4, 2012 at 11:21 am

    I can clearly see the stranglehold of carbon dioxide, choking off all life forms on the planet – not.

    Some day, I hope that “Climatologists” awaken to learn that with their computer models they know nothing of what drives our atmosphere.

  • Hogday
    February 4, 2012 at 11:27 am

    Note France was always in the dark….lazy b

  • CG-23 Sailor
    February 4, 2012 at 5:26 pm

    Truly humbling video of our small lifeboat in space.

    In addition to the obvious aurora and thunderstorms, did anyone take note of the numerous other satellites seen in at least one shot?
    Right after the first segment showing a lot of thunderstorms and just before the crossing of Italy… there is one shot that is facing backwards as the solar arrays move, the Aurora is very red in that shot rather than green. I count at least 5 satellites flicking by in the background of stars.

    “It’s getting awfully crowded in my sky”
    -Malcolm Reynolds, Captain of the Firefly class transport, Serenity

  • Airmail
    February 4, 2012 at 7:02 pm

    On the first two revs, Michigan and the Great Lakes are passing by below…..

    • CG-23 Sailor
      February 4, 2012 at 8:43 pm

      Challenge quiz:

      Who can identify each of the passes seen in the video. In addition to many USA passes, I have seen Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Islands, as well as Gibraltar to Italy and the Suez and the Sinai peninsula

  • CG-23 Sailor
    February 4, 2012 at 9:53 pm

    Passes to Identify:

    0:14 to 0:24
    Diagonally across the USA from SW to NE across Kansas and Missouri and over Chicago and Lake Michigan

    0:25 to 0:43
    Diagonally across USA from NW to SE, Chicago and Lake Michigan can seen in far distance at 0:37 sequence ends off the Eastern Seaboard around Georgia/Florida

    0:44 to 0:58
    No idea, no identifiable lights or coastlines

    0:59 to 1:12
    again no identifiable lights or coastlines, though a coast is just becoming visible as sequence ends.

    1:13 to 1:37
    The California coast seen upside down (Facing south) seems to be the Gulf of California/Baja peninsula on the right as well as lights of LA (Sandy Eggo obscured by cloud cover). We pass over Mexico City with Yucatan peninsula on the upper left. Sequence ends over Panama.

    1:38 to 2:00
    We cross a coastline but unable to ID, day pass no lights to assist

    2:01 to 2:19
    Starts with Gibraltar in upper right, pass over Libya. Corsica, Sicily, Italy, Former Yugoslavia, Romania, Ukraine (you can just see part of the northern Black Sea) Then out over far Eastern Russia

    2:20 to 2:38
    Lots of good potentially identifiable lights and coastline and some seems familiar but for the life of me cannot ID them.

    2:39 to 2:49
    Starts over Libya/Western Egypt. flyover of Cairo and the Nile river valley, Sinai Peninsula, Israel, Lebanon, Syria. At 2:47 can see the Caspian Sea with Baku at center and Tehran at far right edge.

    2:50 to 3:04
    NW to SE over USA starting near Minniapolis/ Des Moines, You can see Chicago on the far right at 2:55, pass south over USA, directly over Atlanta and off Florida, can see Puerto Rico at 3:02. Sequence ends coming up on the North Coast of South America.

    3:05 to 3:17
    daytime pass coming in off the Pacific and over Northern Baja Peninsula/Gulf of Cali. can make out LA/Sandy Eggo. Passes NE over central USA but cannot make out details.

    3:18 to 3:31
    Starts over Hong Kong, tracks towards Philippines. can see Taiwan at upper left. Passes over Luzon, Subic, Manila and on south over the Philippines. Massive T-storms over Cebu.and on to over Papua New Guinea.

    3:32 to 3:45
    some islands and lights but cannot ID

    3:46 to 3:55
    Good coastlines and city lights but cannot ID

    3:56 to 4:02
    Another good candidate for IDing, just not by me. a Lake and lots of city lights identifiable

    4:03 to 4:19
    Massive city lights, coastlines, cannot ID.

    4:20 to 4:30
    overcast

    4:31 to 4:47
    Another good coastline and city lights. appears to be second offset pass from the sequence at 3:46 (same reddish light coastline feature visible in both).

    Anyone care to take a stab at IDing the others that are possible to ID?
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