Alexander Gerst’s Earth timelapses

Watch Earth roll by through the perspective of ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst in this six-minute timelapse video from space. Combining 12 500 images taken by Alexander during his six-month Blue Dot mission on the International Space Station this Ultra High Definition video shows the best our beautiful planet has to offer.

Marvel at the auroras, sunrises, clouds, stars, oceans, the Milky Way, the International Space Station, lightning, cities at night, spacecraft and the thin band of atmosphere that protects us from space.

Often while conducting scientific experiments or docking spacecraft Alexander would set cameras to automatically take pictures at regular intervals. Combining these images gives the timelapse effect seen in this video.

Audio via the Audio Network library:
1. Into The Matrix (1899/6) Jason Pedder / Ben Ziapour
2. We Are Delirious (2073/6) Annie Drury / Bob Bradley / Matt Sanchez / Matt Parker

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Earth timelapses in 4K created using photos taken by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst during his Blue Dot mission to the International Space Station that took place between May and November this year.


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[AndreasLindful]

Einfach nur DANKE, dass ich so etwas sehen und mitfühlen darf !

[PeggyKTC]

*Beautiful lights! Earth's auroras from space*

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst's timelapse video of Earth from the International Space Station. Watch full screen!

[demnk]

Simply brilliant! The part with pod flying off is superb! Stunning.

[arieljacobs]

I can't believe this song is about two hundred thousand minutes. The time lapse makes it sound so much better.

[FatimaAli-cohp]

I find it unfathomably heartbreaking that with all the beauty in the universe we find ways to fight one another and destroy and kill and harm. If we could only understand that we have one planet and we are failing it miserably, we might start working together.

[just_another_name]

This vid, I dont remember how many times I have seen it. An unexplainable awe and humility and hurt.

[RoNiNTIBURONMODESTO]

Большое спасибо Александр Герст за проделанную работу !

[Macabresque]

214 Flat-Earthers disliked this video.

Absolutely gorgeous and breath-taking, by the way!!!

[BorisLu]

Красивейшие виды нашей планеты! Люди, берегите её!

[UATU.]

Made me cry.  How amazing it must be to experience our planet the way astronauts do, and how incredible that they can share this with the rest of us. 

[StefanieStrides]

Mother Earth is of breathtaking beauty !!! 

[reingestrobelt]

Die Auroras in der ersten Timelaps sind komplettes Mindblowing

[Janurinu]

Incredible images! If you are having a bad day and are caught up in the snarl of your daily grind... take a moment to pull back the camera and remember that we all are just little dots floating on a big rock that is tumbling through space. Your concerns will immediately be replaced with the wonder of it all! 

[MrDonovanFrost]

Hello world! We may have just seen each other in this video!

[Scarlt]

Thanks Alexander Gerst. Really, just thank you so much. Your photos and this video approached the Space to us, people who always look the stars in the sky, people growth with sci-fi themed things, people who know that they will never go in that place even is their dream. Thank you.

[Fuuten]

How could anyone dislike this. Apart from the not so fluent transition between the tracks its pretty and awesome.

[honogica]

When I watched this I was reminded just how beautiful our home in space is, how fragile our existence, and just how determined we seem to be to destroy the only place we have to live.

[mirshababahmed]

Now a days its rare this kind of creative work. That time not only in space ; there are so many exciting came as an update. Things even in ground, peoples talk with each other about Alexander Gerst and his team members even after his second return- people like them love them respect them. True...

[exastrisscientia]

4K was choppy and my computer couldn't play it so I dropped it down to 720 and it was still amazing, I can only imagine what it would look like at 4K. Thank ESA and Alexander Gerst for your wonderful work and video.