EARTH'S SPACE ORBIT - MAY 14, 2012 (Ungraded): Western South America. 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 just west of northern Peru to northern Argentina. This video begins looking south over western South America. To the right of the video is the Pacific Ocean, and the left is the shoreline and the Andes Mountains. As the ISS continues southeast, the arid region of the Atacama Desert is seen before passing over the terminator line. (av22413u)

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