Watch: International Space Station captures fascinating view of Bengaluru

Several counter-arguments have featured, which might have reduced the number of people who receive this same forward every Diwali, but it still lights up some citizen’s hearts-authentic or not.

Now imagine, this…. Bengaluru.. a mesmerising view from the International Space Station (ISS), when the space station passes over Karnataka’s capital city. 

In a Twitter post, ISS shared a video that first captured the view of the Karnataka state and then passed over to Sri Lanka. This pass was marked by clear skies on the morning of 25 February.

“This @Space_Station view starts over the city of Bengaluru (also called Bangalore) which is the capital of India’s???????? southern Karnataka state – and then passes over Sri Lanka?????????.Feb 25, 2023 06:39 UTC(you may notice this view is upside down from the usual orientation – that’s because earlier today the ISS was spun around 180 degrees in preparation for the docking of Soyuz MS-23 later today)” ISS Above wrote in the caption.

See the video here

In a separate post, the ISS also released a map of the cities and towns that the space station passed over. “The pass track over India and Sri Lanka,” the caption read.

Replying to a series of questions by a Twitter user, the space station also shared details of the visual. “This is from an altitude of approx 260 miles (418 kilometres) and those white spots are clouds,” ISS wrote.

It also explained the details of the imaging device and said, “This camera does have the capability to zoom (80-300mm) – but it’s not capable of zooming to “road level” (no camera on the ISS has that capability – although astronauts do have access to lenses up to 800mm). Depending on the city you can see the layout of roads. This is about 120×90 miles in frame size.”

“This camera is dedicated to a wider view of the earth below and is set up to match the kind of view astronauts have when looking out the cupola at the earth. Those white spots are clouds,” ISS added.

Since being shared, the video has collected over 13,000 views and several likes. In the comment section, one user jokingly, “Mesmerizing beauty spots of view thank to ISS, I hope I don’t notice balloon here,” while another added, “Namma Bengaluru! Thank you for capturing BLR from space.. wow!! It looks so different!”

Meanwhile, for more than three decades now, the ISS has served as a centre for space research and technological advances, serving as humans’ only permanent residence outside of Earth. The space station complete one orbit in about 90 minutes.