A certain cycling obsessed mate invited me out for a night-time ride this weekend. I thought, why not? Little did i know that it would be a a 4-hour, 40 kilometer epic. Good fun though, top dudes. Runkeeper seems to have missed about 5 kilometres or so, but you can see most of the route here:
A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. 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.
Raw data was downloaded from;
The Gateway To Astronaut Photography of Earth
“http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/mrf.htm “.
just finished the swap, shaking it down a bit….. just using my sony point and click for a quick in car vid…full buildup on the japanese nostalgic website