Cities at Night, an Orbital Tour Around the World

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As part of the Saturday Morning Science program by Don Pettit during Expedition 6 to the International Space Station, his video "Cities at Night; an Orbital Tour Around the World" is a video made from digital still images. This video was made for educational presentations.

Channel: Travel & Events
Uploaded: March 8, 2008 at 5:35 am
Author: pilobolu

Length: 00:10:04
Rating: 4.82
Views: 116958

Tags: space orbit nasa google earth montreal zurich milan madrid athens antwerp london cairo sao paulo hong kong tokyo karachi travel log culture cityscape landmark nature

Video Comments:
allstarvon (August 24, 2008 at 8:40 pm)
1:07 I can see my house haha!
7boon (August 21, 2008 at 3:24 pm)
No it isn't. Oil wells burn the methane as waste gas. A real shame.
ipersalvo (August 20, 2008 at 7:36 am)
The idea of Las Vegas being "the beacon of humanity" is really quite depressing.
DoITakeANumber (August 13, 2008 at 11:33 am)
All the pauses make you LISTEN harder to what he's saying. :)
911Lithium911 (August 6, 2008 at 1:54 pm)
Technology is great and all, but it can be so damaging to the Earth. Our once natural, beautiful planet is now just one big ball of computers. It's hard to explain, but I hope you know what I mean.
Look how crowded these cities are...they even have people living in rainforests! What will happen when the world can't supply enough water, food, fuel, etc, to all these people?!
alexkarcher (August 1, 2008 at 8:59 pm)
Just a correction: that's not Sao Paulo city's coast, the supposed coast part is actually another city, called Santos.
joshuakiehl (July 29, 2008 at 7:37 pm)
As above so below.. After I finish this video I'm going compare them with hubble pics of galaxies. Thanks for the inspiration!
markjamesbmouth (July 27, 2008 at 12:30 pm)
Love this London looks well cool, plus you can see my home town bournemouth as well.
LondonForever75 (August 24, 2008 at 11:22 am)
I know what you mean. When the London picture was shown I could see my town where Im from really easy. Amazing!
makabaerli (July 24, 2008 at 12:50 am)
Well, of course they only shot those pictures when no clouds were there! Otherwise you wouldn't be able to see anything or at least not clearly enough.