EARTH'S SPACE ORBIT - MAY 13, 2012 (Ungraded): From Western to Eastern Africa. 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 northern Algeria to the Mozambique Channel. This video begins looking east over northwestern Africa and southern Spain, over the Mediterranean Sea. As the ISS travels southeast, the Sahara Desert is seen before the ISS travels over the transition of desert to vegetation. Clouds obstruct the view until the video ends looking over the terminator line, separating the daytime light from nighttime darkness. (av22463u)

NASA Johnson Space Center