EARTH'S SPACE ORBIT - DEC 21, 2011 (Ungraded): Lovejoy Comet Flies over Southern Hemisphere. 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 eastern Australia southeast to New Zealand. This brief video features the Lovejoy Comet, which passed by the sun around December 16, and was seen over the Southern Hemisphere near the South Pacific countries. (av21493u)

NASA Johnson Space Center