It’s always mesmerizing watching timelapse images taken at 400 kilometres from the surface of the Earth – and this new video NASA released on YouTube is no different.
In the sequence, the camera’s angle captures the glow of the Earth’s atmosphere and the millions upon millions of lights which outline the spread of human civilization.
Over the years, we’ve been treated with numerous timelapses taken from the International Space Station (ISS).
Back in February, British astronaut Time Peake recorded a timelapse of electrical storms spreading across the Earth’s surface from the ISS.
From North Africa to Russia, you can see an array of flashing lights, which outshone our own artificial light network.
And in June 2015, NASA released a 4K timelapse of the ISS in the foreground orbiting the Earth.
The timelapse captures when the Canadarm had to move around one of ISS’s modules so commercial spacecraft from SpaceX and Boeing could dock with the station.
With files from Nicole Mortillaro