Live Webcams in the International Space Station

The International Space Station is the one place in the catalog that is never in the same place twice, and the live webcams on the ISS show why people look up: Earth from orbit, in real time, from about 400 kilometres up. NASA's external cameras have shared the same kinds of views for years: the curve of the planet under the solar arrays, coastlines and cloud systems sliding past, thunderstorms flickering on the night side, city lights, and the thin blue line of the atmosphere at every sunrise. The station keeps Coordinated Universal Time on board, but the clock matters less than the orbit: a pass over any coast lasts a few minutes, night falls every forty-five, and a dark screen means the station is over the night side and will be back in daylight shortly. It flies at some 28,000 km/h, always somewhere else.