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Earth From Space in 4KPublished Apr 20, 2024NASA+NASA's own long-form reel, and the easiest place to start: just over 52 minutes of ultra-high-definition footage shot from the station between 2019 and 2020 and published on NASA+ for Earth Day 2024.
The length is the point. It plays as a slow window onto passing coastlines, cloud fields and the…0 - 2
Live Video From the International Space StationYouTubeThe only pick here that is happening right now. NASA's live page points to this feed for space station views, so whatever is on screen is the planet as it looks at this moment, roughly 250 miles below. The picture here is a NASA photo of the station itself, taken from a Crew Dragon in November…0 - 3
Earth Views From Space: 1 Hour Long in 4KESA: TBDESA's counterpart to the NASA reel, and a useful companion because it draws on different crews. Over an hour of 4K footage comes mainly from Thomas Pesquet's Proxima mission and Alexander Gerst's Horizons mission, with extra clips from Samantha Cristoforetti and Paolo Nespoli.
Most scenes were…0 - 4
Alexander Gerst's Earth TimelapsesESA: TBDThe classic ISS time-lapse, released by ESA in December 2014 and still one of the best six minutes of orbital footage around. It combines 12,500 images that Gerst took during his six-month Blue Dot mission, often by leaving cameras firing at set intervals while he worked on experiments or prepared…0 - 5
Space Station 20th: Longest Continuous Timelapse From SpaceESA: TBDGerst's second mission produced his longest time-lapse: about 21,375 images taken from the Cupola on October 6, 2018, released for the station's 20th anniversary and shown 12.5 times faster than real time.
At just under 15 minutes it follows the station through two orbits in one continuous…0 - 6
Looking Down During a Day on Earth TimelapseESA: TBDMost station footage looks out toward the horizon. This one looks down. Recorded on September 20, 2021, during Thomas Pesquet's second mission, it was shot at two frames a second and plays about 12 times faster than real time.
Without the curve of the horizon in the way, the ground reads almost…0 - 7
ISS Views Aurora From the November 11-13, 2025 Geomagnetic StormPublished Mar 26, 2026NASA Scientific Visualization StudioThe newest recorded footage on the list, and the most colorful. NASA Johnson's Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit built this time-lapse from station photos taken on November 12, 2025, between 07:13 and 07:35 UTC.
It starts over the northern Pacific, crosses North America and ends looking north…0 - 8
Aurora Australis as Seen From ISSPublished May 7, 2024NASA Scientific Visualization StudioThe southern lights, from NASA Johnson's Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit. Made from station photos taken on August 17, 2022, over roughly 20 minutes, the sequence begins over the Southern Ocean between Africa and Antarctica with green and red aurora throughout.
The payoff comes near the end,…0 - 9
Landfall of Hurricane Michael From SpaceYouTubeStorms are where the station's view turns sobering. Cameras outside the station filmed Hurricane Michael at 12:58 p.m. EDT on October 10, 2018, as it made landfall over the Florida Panhandle, and NASA Johnson posted the footage.
From the ground a hurricane is wind and rain; from orbit it is one…0 - 10
Crew Earth Observations: Special Videosnasa.govThe archive for anyone who wants to know exactly what they are looking at. NASA Johnson's Crew Earth Observations page collects dozens of time-lapses assembled from astronaut photos, each with its expedition, date and a note on the route flown.
Highlights include From Night to Day to Night Again,…0
