Stunning video of South Island captured by International Space Station – Stuff.co.nz

The International Space Station (ISS) has released a video of parts of the South Island captured on Saturday afternoon.

The video, posted by ISSAboveYou on Twitter, comes three days after the ISS captured a stunning video of the North Island showing the coastline stretching from Cape Reinga to the northern part of Hawke's Bay.

A representative for ISSAboveYou said the video was captured as the space station passed by just a bit to the north of Christchurch on January 8 at 12.35pm.

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The video was taken as the space station passed by just a bit to the north of Christchurch on January 8.

The ISS orbits Earth every 90 minutes and has been doing so since November 2000. A crew of seven people live and work in the station while travelling at a speed of 8 kilometres per second.

Nasas website says the space station orbits Earth 16 times in 24 hours and travels through 16 sunrises and sunsets in a day.

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