Added 1 new A* page:NASA posted an article a little while back about neat footage of the Earth taken with the International Space Station's new, Japanese "Super Sensitive High Definition TV" camera ("SS-HDTV"); the footage aired on Japan's NHK television station, and particularly cool clips taken by JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa showed up on YouTube--but since NASA published that article, which links to some of them, they've been switched to "Private" viewing. Wah! Rather a rude thing to do while NASA's trying to link to your video. :P And I'd been meaning to use them for today's blog article. ;_;
Well eh... Here's the only surviving sample of NHK-aired SS-HDTV footage I could find, and it's a rather unexciting live segment. Fortunately though some enterprising individuals have pieced together footage from stills (must have been a lot of 'em!) posted on NASA's site--like this rather spectacular compilation:
video on Youtube
^ I especially like that shot at about 2:00, where dawn light (I guess?) is striking the ISS modules hanging down in the foreground, before the sun has risen over the rim of the planet, so there are still little galaxies of city lights zooming by down below--really beautiful and amazing, gosh!
Earlier in the year that same YouTuber put together this compilation of slower panning shots of the planet seen from the ISS, also in very high definition.
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