EARTH'S SPACE ORBIT - MAR 30, 2012 (Ungraded): Spain to Germany at Night. 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 North Atlantic Ocean, west of Portugal, to southern Germany. This video begins as the International Space Station travels northeast towards the Iberian Peninsula. The cities of Lisbon (near the dark coastline) and Madrid (near the center of the peninsula) can be seen well. The pass continues northeast over southern France, where Paris shines brightly near the left side of the video. The Italian Peninsula can be seen off to the right in the video as the pass ends over southern Germany and Austria. (av21673u)

NASA Johnson Space Center