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Sunrise to Sunset aboard the Space Station

This sequence of time-lapse photographs illustrates roughly half an orbit of the International Space Station, from Northern Europe to Australia.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Sunrise to Sunset aboard the Space Station.

Astronaut photographs STS131-E-11693 to STS131-E-12195 courtesy NASA JSC Image Science & Analysis Laboratory. Animation & caption by Robert Simmon. Special thanks to William L. Stefanov, NASA-JSC.

Published June 28, 2010
Data acquired April 12, 2010