That Tchaikovsky recording was like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. I'm okay with the composition itself, but the recording was horribly distorted. I much prefer the electronic music, or this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQQGi4gN6gI
This new time-lapse video from Michael König shot aboard the International Space Station gives you a view of Earth that was only available to a select handful of astronauts until now.
I'm pretty sure the astronauts themselves don't see the neon-green glowing and other details that way do they? It was shot with a low-light camera.
There's no way it looks like that to the naked eye. This is probably a long exposure camera with a very high dynamic range, and we're seeing the dark side of the planet.
If you have a camera with a long exposure feature, try taking a 10-15 second shot of a nearly pitch black room. That will give you a sense of how this is made.
It's amazing how it looks so digitally enhanced, but I guess it isn't. It would be cool if more sci-fi movies and space games showed planets looking like that.
This video is pretty incredible. It's so amazing to see how visible the storms and city lights are from around (I think) 250 miles away! The northern lights look surreal as well.
It's cool that there is so much to see by a change in perspective.
It's probably a long exposure camera. Each frame could be exposed for many seconds or even minutes. Any lightning that strikes during that time appears in the frame.
