NASA astronaut aboard ISS captures colorful aurora in time-lapse footage of Earth from space (video)
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Johnny Kim, NASA’s astronaut, acquired the shots during eight months’ stay on the International Space Station. | Credit: NASA / Johnny Kim
NASA’s astronaut Johnny Kim released his first video on Earth from the International Space Station (ISS), where he displays the amazing Aurora, lightning storms and the lights of the city that illuminates the night side of our planet’s surface.
Previous US Navy It was launched to ISS on April 8th this year On board a spacecraft from Russian Soyuz, which begins with a tour of eight months as a flight engineer at Expeedion 73. landKim requested advice from her crew colleague Nicole Ayers, which regularly publishes amazing astronomical photography on her social novels that show the natural splendor of “blue marble”.
Thanks to some instructions and advice from @astro_ayersKim wrote on a post on Twitter/X accompanying the video clip, after I saw the result, I told her that this seems to be fishing. “Prepare the camera, the corner, settings, pregnant women, then set your temporary and return to hunting. After hunting my first fish, I think I am a drug addict. Thank you, steam!”
KIM chronological interval picks an amazing mixture of natural phenomena and city lights on the surface of the Earth, as the solar panels in the space station turned to collect precious sunlight used to operate the tropical focus.
The shots start with the sunset behind the Earth’s tablet, and the night appears on board Iss 45 minutes when the station passes through our planet’s shadow. Stars can be seen shining over the outlines of our dense gas planet atmosphere with sunset, while the city lights and lightning storms play through the cloudy Vista below.
A scene from the International Space Station shows an amazing Aurora. | Credit: NASA / Johnny Kim
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A bright green eruption is taken through the night sky at the end of the video, as the station passed over Southeast Asia and Australia. These colored shows arise when the active particles of solar wind collide with our planet, and the exciting oxygen and nitrogen molecules in the upper atmosphere, causing them to shine, According to NASA’s jetting laboratory.
KIM’s time interval ends with the station’s return to our planet’s daytime side, with sunscreen to sunlight in direct sunlight. The ISS 16 rolls of our planet complements every 24 hours while traveling at medium speed of 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 km/h).
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