EARTH'S SPACE ORBIT - JAN 3, 2012 (Ungraded): Aurora Australis over the Indian Ocean. 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 Indian Ocean, just west of Australia, to south of Australia, west of Tasmania. The crew captures the aurora just before the sun begins to come up in this short video. A few orbiting satellites pass by throughout the video as well. (av22013u)

NASA Johnson Space Center