EARTH'S SPACE ORBIT - JAN 1, 2012 (Ungraded): China to the Aleutian Islands. 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 north-central China to the North Pacific Ocean, south of the Aleutian Islands. The pass begins looking back from the ISS at the Qilian Mountains and Qinghai Lake. As the ISS continues northeast over the Gobi Desert, heavy cloud and snow cover the ground until far northeastern China. (av21983u)

NASA Johnson Space Center