Earth at night seen from space.
Best viewed fullscreen. Timelapse images courtesy of the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center (ISS043-E-102202-103235 eol.jsc.nasa.gov)
@wonderofscience Wow that lighting flash towards the end of the video, stunning
@wonderofscience thankyou, that's now my wallpaper
@wonderofscience K I've lost 45 minutes staring at my wallpaper since I added it, this may have been a mistake
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Beautiful, yet terrible. Look what we have done to our only home in the universe.
@echanda @wonderofscience The lights look like ruined scars marring the surface of something that was once beautiful.
@wonderofscience It never ceases to amaze me how little atmosphere there actually is between us and the cold hard vacuum of space.
@wonderofscience Earth, ruined by light pollution.
@wonderofscience Charming lights and soothing view of our lovely planet. πŸ’š

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Thank you, Elon. Maybe next time you go up, you can stay there. How'd that be?

@wonderofscience I don't think I could stress enough just how effing AWESOME that is. Seriously. I wish it were a still image in landscape because that would be my computer wallpaper from now until the end of time.
@feverspell You can find the full resolution original photos listed here https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/mrf.pl?MRFList=ISS043-E-102202-103235%0D%0A&scope=both. They are sorted last to first so you'll need to scroll down to find the images from the start of the video.
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@wonderofscience I love how we don’t know the orientation. πŸ₯°
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Alt text: Timelapse of Earth at night as seen from space station, dark outlines of continents, mountains and clouds, moving past, warm glow of sprawling cities and small towns, occasional flash thunder, moonlight glinting off water
@sabik Thank you, I've added your description to the video.
@wonderofscience Some #QAnon friend of mine told me that it was all fake. /s ;)
@wonderofscience So beautiful!! Truly magnificent! 😍 ❀️ 🌎
@wonderofscience Crazy how well the major agglomerations in Europe and the Middle East are visible - and e.g. the void of the Alps or the Apennin. And the motorway allumination in Belgium is like totally crazy!!!
@wonderofscience flat earthers, where are you 🀣🀣🀣🀑🌏
@wonderofscience lol just needs to be ailless round