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An amazing view of earth in this time-lapse video taken from the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night.

The movie was made up of data from Nasa and begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica.

Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and the Amazon. Also visible is the earths ionosphere (thin yellow line) and the stars of our galaxy.

Watch it in 1080p if you can and full screen.

Google Maps now provides live traffic updates to a host of European countries including – Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland with UK geting street level traffic updates and general road level to follow shortly.

The people at this site London Tubemap have designed a more geographically-accurate version of the London Underground map, I like it gives you a much better idea of where you are going.

Footage taken of a flight coming in to land in LA at Twilight.