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Friday, March 27, 2009

Earth View From The International Space Station

Continuing with the space theme by pure coincidence, a look at what you'd see looking out the window of the ISS:

This movie starts out with opening the port shutter in the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) and then switches with time lapse view to Endeavour's left window looking at the JEM showing one orbital day pass with solar array motion and shadow motion. The solar panels rotate relative to the ISS so that they track the sun. One image taken every 15 seconds and played back at 5 frames per image.
Hell of a view, huh?

3 comments:

Matt said...

James,

My apologies for not having visited your blog in a while. But I have something really interesting for you. Don't know if you're into classical music, and I'm not, but this is fascinating about Bach:

http://strangepaths.com/canon-1-a-2/2009/01/18/en/

Douglas Hofstadter RAVES about this piece in his book Godel, Escher, Bach. Just shows you how brilliant and off the wall Bach really was.

Matt said...

sorry:
http://strangepaths.com/canon-1-a-2/2009/01/18/en

JBW said...

Welcome back, Matty my boy. I do dig classical music but I'd never heard this before. Cool shit! Makes me glad that Bach was born in a time and place that allowed him the opportunity to use his gifts.