International Space Station weird stuff caught on video
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Your tax dollars at work.....Footage from the International Space Station live webcam feed. I noticed this pattern repeating every couple hours a little differently every time as the angles changed. It seems to have something to do with the rotation of the Space Station camera, as it comes into particular angles in relation to the sun, weird reflections and almost holographic refractions sometimes occur. The geometry involved seems to be reflections of different parts of the Space Station, but they can come in and out of phase in some weirdly beautiful patterns that can make it look like a UFO appearing. As one viewer commented, this refraction phenomenon is properly termed "lens flare." http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/isslivestream.asx
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yo bro I watch the ISS live 24 hours you won't believe what I see
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That's correct. I didn't know the proper term, but indeed that's what it is. Conditions in outer space are ideal for some wild visuals related to this phenomenon of lens flare.
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@Benixarg Youtube does not allow links posted in comments but if you go to the NASA wbsite it's there, and I put the link to the ISS live cam in the uploader's comments.
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Nice. Where's the space station live webcam feed?
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