NASA’s video of the ISS in 4K is pretty spectacular

In the most recent video, astronaut Terry Virts shows off the weird and complex way that fluids move in space, creating a mesmerising ball of water which contains an effervescent tablet.

Space Station received the Epic Dragon camera during its fifth official uncrewed resupply mission in January. Think of it as about 2.5 times the clarity of your 1080 HD television. The camera’s ability to record at a high resolution as well as up to 300 frames per second made it the ideal recording device to capture dynamic events like vehicle operations near the station, such as docking and undocking. These cameras have large sensors capable of very high resolution imaging at high frame rates.

Take a look at what happened when an effervescent tablet is dissolved into floating water on the ISS.

The cameras are being evaluated for other uses at the global Space Station by engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.

The camera tech isn’t just for drumming up interest in spaceflight – it’s practical, too. “No film to return to Earth”.

On Monday, NASA launched the primary batch of photographs of Earth from the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite tv for pc.

The new RED camera system is the same model used to record The Hobbit trilogy, so in terms of viewing figures, NASA’s videos have a few catching up to do.