EARTH'S SPACE ORBIT - JAN 2, 2012 (Ungraded): Looking Nadir: Central America to New England. 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 Central America to east of New England in North America. This unique video looks directly down at the Earth (nadir) from the nadir-looking Cupola window. The pass begins looking down at the blue waters of the Pacific Ocean, and the first land that is seen is that of Costa Rica and Panama. The ISS continues northeast over the Caribbean Sea before flying over Jamaica, eastern Cuba, and western Haiti. Passing these islands, the ISS flies over the shallow waters surrounding Great Inagua Island, Acklins Island, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. (av22003u)

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