EARTH'S SPACE ORBIT - JAN 23, 2012 (Ungraded): Stars over Eastern United States. 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 Gulf of Mexico, west of the Yucatan Peninsula, to the North Atlantic Ocean, east of Newfoundland and Labrador. This video mainly focuses on the star field while the ISS travels over the eastern United States, Canada, and over the North Atlantic Ocean. Because of the rate at which the astronauts took the images, the video is sped up and therefore shows the rotation of the stars much more easily. The camera also captures the Aurora Borealis close to the ISS. (av22223u)

NASA Johnson Space Center