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An astronaut's away-from-home movie: Fragile Oasis

Explore time-lapse photography with Ron Garan's captivating video from space, revealing Earth as a fragile oasis.

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Astronaut Ron Garan's photography is a common feature here at BA Central, and although his still photos are incredible, he hadn't tried time-lapse photography until his last trip up to the space station. He took a series of images and he himself created a video from them, called "Time Lapse From Space - Literally. The Journey Home". It's similar to the time lapse I posted recently of the Earth from space, but has some new stuff in it:

[embed width="610"]http://vimeo.com/32430473[/embed]

Breathtaking, isn't it?

This is part of a project Ron is working on called Fragile Oasis

, an effort to get everyone to see the Earth as a single home for humanity, and to inspire people to make a difference, change things for the better. About his feelings as he gazed down on the Earth from space, Ron writes

:

It was very moving to see the beauty of the ...

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