Watching Chicago, Illinois at night from Space | the Midwest, East Coast and Florida, United States.

The International Space Station flies over the Midwest, United States in North America at approximately 400 kilometers (250 miles) above in Low Earth Orbit on different paths during night passes at a speed of 28,000 kilometers per hour (17,500 miles per hour). Experience large cities that make up the Northern and Central states on the United States of America, including, but not limited to Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, and many more. Filled in between these large metropolitan areas are their respective suburbs shaped in nearly perfect grids and speckled dots of light marked by smaller towns and the night's darkness made up of America's farmlands. 00:00:00 - Green and Red Aurora 00:00:24 - Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota 00:00:45 - Des Moines, Iowa 00:00:50 - Chicago, Illinois 00:01:30 - St. Louis, Missouri 00:02:05 - Memphis, Tennessee 00:02:30 - Chicago, Illinois, St. Louis, Missouri, Des Moines, Iowa, and Minneapolis, St-Paul, Minnesota all in one single view. 00:03:15 - Canada and faint green aurora 00:04:35 - Approaching Chicago, Illinois from the North-west 00:05:10 - Detroit Michigan, Indianapolis, Indiana, Cleveland, Ohio, and Cincinnati, Ohio 00:05:42 - Moonrise 00:06:00 - United States East Coast - Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Maryland, Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Charlotte, North Carolina Imagery used to compile this video are courtesy of NASA. http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/