EARTH'S SPACE ORBIT - MAY 16, 2012 (Ungraded): Western North and South America. 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 just west of California to west of Peru. This pass begins as the ISS is tracking south-southeast off the western coast of the United States. Southern California can be seen, as well as the large city of Los Angeles and the Baja Peninsula. Just to the south of the peninsula, smog can be seen off the coastline of Mexico. The pass continues south-southeast over the Pacific Ocean before the video ends looking at the western coast of South America. (av22473u)

NASA Johnson Space Center