For a different glimpse of the Earth check out this time-lapse video from the International Space Station.
According to news.com.au it was shot during one night as the station orbited the planet, showing lights from large cities in the USA.
The video starts over the Pacific Ocean, then moves across North and South America before a flash of daylight explodes into view near Antarctica. The thin yellow line clearly ringing the world is the ionosphere.
Amazingly the video shows lightning striking above the Pacific Ocean around Central America.
The footage was taken from the Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth, a site that has made over a million images of Earth available to the public.
