NASA astronaut Zena Cardman has shared a breathtaking time-lapse clip of the Earth, featuring a dazzling display of the planet’s natural lights.
Filmed during manoeuvres connected toSpaceX’sCRS-33mission, the footage compresses time to showcase an orbital somersault unfolding at 60 times its real speed.
From the Atlantic to the Pacific, the clip captures sunset, lightning storms, air glow, Moon glint, stars, and sunrise in one seamless sweep.
“The @Space_Stationrarely makes big changes to its orientation, but we were lucky to experience such maneuvers (flipping around to fly butt-first, then flipping back again) before and after each @spacexCRS-33 reboost", Cardman wrote in a post on ‘X’.
The NASA astronaut said the time-lapse was one of her favourites, since it “captured a little of everything".
“This 60x speed timelapse was one of my favorites since it captures a little of everything – sunset, lightning storms, air glow, moon glint, stars, and sunrise – as we did one (actually very slow) orbital cartwheel from Atlantic to Pacific", she added.
The@Space_Stationrarely makes big changes to its orientation, but we were lucky to experience such maneuvers (flipping around to fly butt-first, then flipping back again) before and after each@spacexCRS-33 reboost. This 60x speed timelapse was one of my favorites since it…pic.twitter.com/7IsZnb1G7G— Zena Cardman (@zenanaut)February 17, 2026
Zena Cardman, a commander of NASA’s Crew-11 mission, made significant contributions to the research during Expeditions 73 and 74 on the station.
A geobiologist by training, she studied life in extreme environments like caves and deep seas.
Cardman joined NASA in 2017. Her expeditions across the unforgiving ice of Antarctica sharpened her skills for space — where she conducts research that span human physiology in microgravity to the development of advanced materials.
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