EARTH'S SPACE ORBIT - JAN 02, 2012 (Ungraded): Mongolia to the Sea of Okhotsk. 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 central Mongolia to the Sea of Okhotsk, east of Russia. This pass begins looking back from the ISS toward Mongolia and the Mongolian Plateau (most of which is snow-covered). Looking far right of track, Lake Baikal in Russia can be seen under the snow. Continuing northeast toward the Sea of Okhotsk, snow mainly covers the ground, except where mountain peaks show through. (av21853u)

NASA Johnson Space Center