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The International Space Station in orbit 354 kilometers (220 miles) above Earth, completing a round the world every 92 minutes. Cruise over 27,700 kilometers (17,200 miles) per hour, the astronauts experience 15 or 16 and sunrise-set every day. Since the launch of the Zarya control module, the November 20, 1998, the station has orbited Earth more than 66,500 times (June 27, 2010). The orbit of the station in Ecuador is inclined 51.65 °, its importance in the north, is the latitude of London, England, and there is more freedom over the Falkland Islands.

This sequence of time lapse photography about half shows an orbit, the sunrise over northern Europe (pictured above) when the sun of the south-eastern Australia, April 28, 2010. Top left is the tail of space shuttle Discovery, which docked with the ISS during the STS-131 mission. cloudiness in the center of Europe (picture below). The view is north of the clay court season. The animation begins with a view of the snow in Norway (above) and the peninsula of Jutland (the center of the image).

Night falls, the ISS crosses the finish on the South Pacific. After Space Station passes over the sapphire blue of the South China Sea, the island of Borneo, followed by the immensity of the Indian Ocean. Just before the sunset, the shadows lengthen the clouds, highlighting its structure. In Australia is painted with a thousand shades of red (below). A trio of coral reefs off the coast of Western Australia, which is dotted with clouds.

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