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Vanity: Looking at the Earth at night from space (An Orbital Tour Around the World)
From an email ^
Posted on 03/27/2008 8:34:30 PM PDT by Slump Tester
An astronaut, Don Pettit, has put together a 10-minute movie of what cities look like at night as seen from space.
He shot these images while he was Science Officer aboard ISS Expedition 6 about 5 years ago. He recently posted this on YouTube.
This video "Cities at Night; an Orbital Tour Around the World" is a video made from digital still images.
A bit of trivia.... most of the music during the movie is from royalty-free clips from Adobe Auditions, but for the Australian sequences, Don played his own didgeridoo that he had with him in space aboard ISS.
As you remember, Columbia was lost while Expedition 6 was in space, so Pettit and his crewmates had to return in the Soyuz spacecraft. He couldn't bring back personal effects due to cramped space in the Soyuz, so he left his didgeridoo on the space station.
Three years later his didgeridoo came home on STS-114 and now he has it again, and played it in this movie.
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; astrophotography; photography
I got this today in an email from a friend who is really into astronomy and photography. Thought I'd share it here.
To: Slump Tester
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posted on
03/27/2008 8:38:26 PM PDT
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2111USMC
To: Slump Tester
UTTERLY WONDERFUL! THANK YOU!
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posted on
03/27/2008 8:44:09 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
To: 2111USMC
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posted on
03/27/2008 8:52:19 PM PDT
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Just mythoughts
(Isa.3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.)
To: Slump Tester
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posted on
03/27/2008 8:55:01 PM PDT
by
kingattax
(99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
To: Slump Tester
very beautiful video - thanks for sharing it with the rest of us
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posted on
03/27/2008 8:55:56 PM PDT
by
YankeeinOkieville
(Do illiterates get the full effect of alphabet soup?)
To: Just mythoughts
Thanks!
Two words. Short and sweet.
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posted on
03/27/2008 9:07:27 PM PDT
by
2111USMC
To: Slump Tester
Fascinating. I watched the whole thing. The images reminded me of stained tissue samples under a microscope. As in histology, you learn to recognize characteristic patterns and colors.
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posted on
03/27/2008 9:08:45 PM PDT
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TChad
To: TChad
I thought it was neat the way different kinds of lights like mercury vapor vrs. sodium vapor stood out. He described Japan as having a bluish hue, and then later he mentions somewhere else as being blue from mercury vapor lights.
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posted on
03/27/2008 9:13:03 PM PDT
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Slump Tester
(What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
To: Slump Tester
Also there are characteristic patterns: radiating stars for Europe, gridworks for the U.S.
I was surprised that the D.C. diamond was so clearly visible.
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posted on
03/27/2008 9:37:22 PM PDT
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TChad
To: Slump Tester
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posted on
03/27/2008 9:38:51 PM PDT
by
6SJ7
To: Slump Tester
Spectacular! Thanks for posting!
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posted on
03/27/2008 9:50:40 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: Slump Tester
Cool! Here's my hometown at night:
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posted on
03/27/2008 9:58:25 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(If you don't want people to get your goat, don't tell them where it's tied.)
To: Inyo-Mono
I checked out your "About me page". VERY cool!
You are so fortunate to live there. It looks beautiful.
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posted on
03/27/2008 10:03:26 PM PDT
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Slump Tester
(What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
To: IncPen
To: Slump Tester
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posted on
03/27/2008 11:20:42 PM PDT
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Cedar
To: Slump Tester
Here's something else that's neat looking. I know it's going to be a big photo here but please indulge me this time.
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posted on
03/28/2008 7:42:34 AM PDT
by
NCC-1701
(PUT AN END TO ORGANIZED CRIME. ABOLISH THE I.R.S.)
To: NCC-1701
Nice picture...thanks. That is definitely saved
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posted on
03/28/2008 8:29:34 PM PDT
by
deks
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
03/28/2008 10:37:29 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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