Subject: Space Station's new hi-tech 'Nightpod' camera! Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:41 pm
An astronaut on the International Space Station has designed a 'tripod' for taking spectacular night-time pictures of Earth - quite a technical feat when you're on board an orbiting craft that moves at more than four miles a second.
Andre Kuipers installed 'Nightpod' - a motorised camera that compensates for the hurtling speeds of the ISS, by tracking points on Earth's surface. The results are some of the most spectacular pictures ever taken from space.
Moonset, captured by ESA astronaut, Andrei Kuipers
Europe at night, as seen from 250 miles up
Down under, from very high up: Christchurch, New Zealand.
UK and Ireland by night.
Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian East Coast captured by ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers.
The Palm and The World Islands in Dubai
The city of London, surrounded by the glow of the M25
