The recent SpaceX Dragon capsule that was sent to the International Space Station, amongst other things, brought a high definition camera system called High-Definition Earth Viewing experiment or HDEV. The camera has been mounted to the European Columbus module and has begun streaming live pictures of the Earth from orbit.
Read more on the Spaceflight Now website, or view the stream here: HDEV experiment
View a live feed of the Earth from the ISS
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Re: View a live feed of the Earth from the ISS
Thanks for posting that JazHaz, i just watched what i thought was a snowy landscape scroll past, I couldn't understand why the folk in the chatbox were talking about Spain- realised than that the snow was clouds
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Here's another page with HDEV streaming, with a map showing the location of the station also.
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/
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Re: View a live feed of the Earth from the ISS
I keep hoping we'll see something REALLY exciting out there...