Award-winning video editor Adonis Pulatis put together this breathtaking timelapse of Earth using high-resolution images shot by International Space Station astronauts.

He writes:

The International Space Station Expedition 30 crew has shot some truly awe-inspiring time-lapse sequences flying over practically every square mile of the globe. I downloaded the high-resolution image sets that have been made available and constructed this short time-lapse piece in hi-res 2K project format. I was amazed at how clean the Nikon D3S images turned out (even at ISO 3200 and above) which kept the post-processing requirements to a minimum.

Damn, Earth, you gorgeous!

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio -- the same team that recently brought us an animation of the moon as it will appear from Earth for each hour of 2012 -- has also released a stunning video called "Perpetual Ocean," a time lapse of the world's ocean currents as calculated by the ECCO2 computational model.

The editors at the Visualization Studio write:

ECCO2 attempts to model the oceans and sea ice to increasingly accurate resolutions that begin to resolve ocean eddies and other narrow-current systems which transport heat and carbon in the oceans.The ECCO2 model simulates ocean flows at all depths, but only surface flows are used in this visualization.

Perpetual Ocean was submitted at the last minute to the SIGGRAPH 2011 conference and didn't make the cut, but it's now online for all of us to be mesmerized by.

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