{"id":22754,"date":"2011-09-23T14:37:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T20:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=22754"},"modified":"2011-09-23T14:37:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T20:37:46","slug":"flying-over-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/23\/flying-over-the-earth.html","title":{"rendered":"Flying over the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even if the space program &#8212; from the moon landings to the ISS &#8212; had never made any other scientific discoveries or collateral technological advances &#8212; it would all have been worth it for the beauty and perspective they have provided on our life on Earth. \u00a0E.g.,<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/74mhQyuyELQ\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 Francisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, El Salvador, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Lake Titicaca, and the Amazon. Also visible is the earths ionosphere (thin yellow line), a satellite (55sec) and the stars of our galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>Smooth Version;<br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PdDEpC0uHWI\" dir=\"ltr\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PdDEpC0uHWI\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PdDEpC0uHWI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>25fps Version<br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LcVVOnHfN1I&amp;feature=related\" dir=\"ltr\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LcVVOnHfN1I&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LcVVOnHfN1I&amp;feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Raw data was downloaded from;<\/p>\n<p>The Gateway To Astronaut Photography of Earth<br \/>\n&#8220;<a title=\"http:\/\/eol.jsc.nasa.gov\/sseop\/mrf.htm\" dir=\"ltr\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/eol.jsc.nasa.gov\/sseop\/mrf.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/eol.jsc.nasa.gov\/sseop\/mrf.htm<\/a> &#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Virtualdub was used to create the final movie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An amazing universe, ennit?<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/09\/19\/time-lapse-video-taken-from-international-space-station-orbiting-earth-at-night.html?dlvrit=36761\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if the space program &#8212; from the moon landings to the ISS &#8212; had never made any other scientific discoveries or collateral technological advances &#8212; it would all have been worth it for the beauty and perspective they have provided on our life on Earth. \u00a0E.g., A time-lapse taken from the front of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/23\/flying-over-the-earth.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flying over the Earth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15191,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/13\/the-long-retreat.html","url_meta":{"origin":22754,"position":0},"title":"The long retreat","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 13-Jul-09 7:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"One day I fear I'll have to answer to Katherine -- or to her children -- about how we let this slip away ... 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