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New NASA video shows parts of Canada from space at night
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Daily Buzz
Stunning new video taken from the International Space Station shows Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick at night.
The crew of Expedition 30 shot the time-lapse video over a 10-minute period as they flew from northern Mexico to New Brunswick on Jan. 30. The Great Lakes are clearly visible and make it easy to pick out cities like Chicago, Detroit/Windsor, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal as they emit the largest clumps of light. It is shot from about 200 miles above Earth.
NASA also makes available a high-definition version of the video.
Notice the northern lights, the halo of green hugging the Earth in the middle of the frame.
"Some of these sequences of frames were taken at the rate of one frame per second," reads the NASA website. "Therefore the slower speed of the video represents a closer resemblance to the true speed of the International Space Station than previous videos."
This is part of a series of nighttime flyover videos uploaded to NASA's YouTube page in the past few days. Other videos feature the East Coast of North America, the Central Great Plains and southwest Canada, shown below.
The crew members of the space station circle the planet at more than 28,000 kilometres per hour—that's every 90 minutes. The station first launched in 1998 and is expected to stay in operation until at least 2020.
Canadian astronaut Col. Chris Hadfield will take command of the station in March 2013.
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