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    • Title Orbital plane timelapse
    • Released: 10/12/2021
    • Length 00:00:57
    • Language English
    • Footage Type Exterior shot
    • Copyright ESA/NASA
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      Timelapse video made during ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet’s second mission to the International Space Station, “Alpha” around 14 September 2021. The camera was setup to take pictures at intervals of two a second, and the pictures are then edited into this video that plays at 25 pictures a second. The video is around 12 times faster than real speed.

      Thomas shared this video on social media with the caption:

      “Depending on the angle between our orbital plane and the direction to the sun, sometimes we never completely fly in darkness, always seeing our star on the horizon.”

      Over 200 experiments were conducted during Thomas’ time in space, with 40 European ones and 12 new experiments led by the French space agency CNES.

      Updates on the Alpha mission can be found via @esaspaceflight on Twitter, with more details on ESA’s exploration blog via thomaspesquet.esa.int.

      Background information on the Alpha mission is available at www.esa.int/MissionAlpha with a brochure at www.esa.int/AlphaBrochure.   

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    • Mission Alpha
    • People Thomas Pesquet
    • System ISS
    • Keywords Earth views (taken by astronauts), Time-lapse

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