EARTH'S SPACE ORBIT - MAY 27, 2012 (Ungraded): Western Europe and Arabian Peninsula at Dawn. Time lapse from unaltered photos taken by astronauts. HighRes NASA JPEGs muxed into PhotoJPEG video without re-encoding and post-processing. This clip retains 100% of original image quality including camera artifacts. ISS flying in Earth's orbit from the Celtic Sea, south of Ireland, to northeastern Ethiopia. This video begins looking southeast over France and Germany in Western Europe as the ISS passes southeast towards the Alps Mountains and the Italian Peninsula and the Adriatic Sea, then further southeast over the Balkan Peninsula. The pass continues over the Mediterranean Sea and over the Arabian Peninsula, and ends looking out over the Arabian Sea. (av22573u)

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