Superb Video of Earth, From Orbit

[Mad Pino Rage]

Michael Moyer, at Scientific American, calls this “the best video of Earth from space ever made,” and it’s hard to disagree. It was fashioned from photographs taken by the crew of the International Space Station from August to October. “refurbished, smoothed, retimed, denoised, deflickered, cut, etc.” — and added a soundtrack.
Highlights include several instances of the Aurora Borealis, as well as the lesser known Aurora Australis. Not to mention, as Moyer puts it, “lightning storms like firecrackers”:


http://vimeo.com/32001208

[Vengeful Scars]

Twas fucking beautiful.... I just can't believe that was all real, it looks like really good CGI, dude must've really spent time on making picuters of the earth look so.... HD!!