Seeing satellites from the ISS

This timelapse video was made from the publicly available image on the Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth website, I downloaded about 662 still images of a spectacular aurora display (Images ISS065-E-218005 to ISS065-E-218667) to convert into a video and was very surprised to see lots of satellites orbiting above the display. I’ve often seen people ask why can’t you see other satellites in footage shot from the ISS ..... turns out you can see them. Images courtesy of the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center
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