Continuous photos of earth's orbit being captured in a matter of an hour and a half

Monday, October 23, 2017
The International Space Station is taking folks around the world in 90 minutes.

Starting at around 7:25 a.m. today, the space station's astronauts will capture images of Earth during an entire orbit from their perspective 250 miles above the surface.
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Plans for Space Station Expedition 53 crew call for the photo capture to start over Europe, pass by Africa and Asia, view a sunset near Australia and sunrise west of South America, cross over Mexico, and finish with a ride across the U.S. into Canada.

The crew was inspired by a project from the 1980s called "A Day in the Life of America," which consists of 200 photojournalists capturing life across the U.S. on film in a single day.
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People on earth are encouraged to follow the project using the hashtag #1world1orbit.

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