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Planet Earth is beautiful
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- Title Planet Earth is beautiful
- Released: 17/03/2016
- Length 00:00:30
- Language English
- Footage Type Exterior shot
- Copyright ESA/NASA
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A timelapse video by European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake taken during his six-month Principia mission on the International Space Station.
The International Space Station travels at 28 800 km/h meaning that it only takes 90 minutes to circle Earth completely. Each orbit the Station moves around 2200 km to the West in relation to 90 minutes before.
Astronauts use normal consumer digital cameras to take pictures in their spare time. Setting the camera to take an image every few seconds and then playing the images back quickly creates this timelapse effect.
The British astronaut commented on this timelapse: "Planet Earth is beautiful. Help protect it and take part in #EarthHour with WWF on Saturday 19 March at 20:30 local time https://www.earthhour.org/"
More about the Principia mission: http://www.esa.int/Principia
Follow Tim Peake via http://timpeake.esa.int
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- Activity Human Spaceflight
- Mission Principia
- People Tim Peake, Timothy Peake
- System ISS
- Keywords Earth, Earth views (taken by astronauts), ESA astronauts, Time-lapse
- Set Tim Peake
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