First Full-Color HD Videos Of Earth Taken From Space Are Amazing

Satellite mental imagery has become a part of our daily digital sprightliness ; we apply still of our planet to navigate to the mall , for goodness sake . But when those images are moving , the result is so stunning that it ’s almost charming . UrtheCast has relinquish thefirst full - color HD video of Earthshot from the International Space Station . And it ’s just freaking gorgeous .

UrtheCast publishedthree videoscaptured by its ISS - mounted radical HD tv camera , which Gizmodo compiled into a short montage . The camera ( named Iris ) can zoom into an field of about 1.19 x 0.67 miles . Here you could see footage of London , Boston and Barcelona , almost as animated maps : freeways bombinate with motorcar , colourful container yard in motion , sauceboat drifting down the Thames .

I was surprised how excited I got watching these . Although the picture are n’t lively , there is a difference between zooming in on a frozen consequence on a grainy Google Earth image and catch humanity in crisp , precise motion from above . To me , consider ourselves in this mode feels almost like another Pale Blue Dot present moment — a novel portrait of our major planet from space .