Cities at night from space

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEiy4zepuVE[/youtube]

A neat video showing photographs of cities from space with a resolution and quality not seen before. The ability of these rocket scientists to construct a mechanism to cancel out the earth’s orbital movement so the photo does not blur is amazing, though perhaps what one expects from rocket scientists.

If you can’t see it, this is the direct YouTube link.

Via the Creative Class blog.