Earth Strip
About This Project
Earth Strip takes the International Space Station (ISS) live streaming video of the Earth and creates a continuous realtime slit-scan image.
The live video is streaming from an external HD camera mounted on the ISS which flies at 400 kilometers high at 28,800 kilometers per hour. Each orbit takes 90-93 minutes which results in it experiencing 16 sunrises and sunsets each day.
What can we observe are the transition between dusks and dawns over a matter of seconds, a realtime footage that feels like a timelapse recording, seeing the transitions of civilization, landscapes, clouds, moving through seasons in a borderless manner — feeling closer to Earth as a whole, in realtime.
It is at a distance and time scale that is puzzling to comprehend.
Credits: this service is provided by the International Space Station program and the ARES Division, Exploration Integration Science Directorate.
A 35-minute recording of Earth Strip, Crossing Australia
The red line shows the one line that is taken from the live footage and drawn onto the canvas, one line at a time.
Current location and livestream:
If the video of the External High Definition Camera (EHDC) has been interrupted, a slide of its status will appear. This usually lasts a few minutes.
Selected Moments:
South Asia Landscape
Sunset Across Indian Ocean
Australian Coast
South Pacific Ocean at Dusk
