Five Minutes in Orbit (154728)
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| Description | The scenery changes quickly for the crew of the International Space Station. Traveling at a speed of 5 miles (8 kilometers) per second, the station completes one orbit of Earth about every 90 minutes. This time-lapse video offers a flavor of the earthly and celestial phenomena visible from about 400 kilometers (250 miles) above the surface in just over five minutes of travel time. It consists of 315 photographs taken by an astronaut aboard the station as it orbited over the eastern Pacific Ocean and North America on June 22, 2025. Mexico comes into view in the first part of the video. The land is mostly dark in the early morning hours (about 2:30 a.m. Central Standard Time), but lights appear in developed areas and illuminate clouds from below. Some frames capture flashes of lightning. Later in the video, lights along the U.S. Gulf Coast and across southern states appear, and sunrise approaches. Above the lower atmosphere, where most of the planet’s weather occurs, a diffuse layer of g |
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| Author | Astronaut photographs ISS073-E-310920 through ISS073-E-311235 were acquired on June 22, 2025, with a Nikon Z9 digital camera using a focal length of 24 millimeters. They are provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Re |
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Attribution: Astronaut photographs ISS073-E-310920 through ISS073-E-311235 were acquired on June 22, 2025, with a Nikon Z9 digital camera using a focal length of 24 millimeters. They are provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Re