How To Watch The International Space Station Livestream Its View Of Earth – SlashGear

The program that shows footage from the International Space Station is called the ISS High Definition Live Streaming Video of the Earth, or HDEV, and you can watch it at this website. The original HDEV experiment wrapped up back in 2019, but other cameras on the exterior of the station have taken over, so there is still a regular stream of video you can tune into.

The livestream goes offline sometimes, and the screen will appear black because the station is on the far side of the Earth to the sun, called the nighttime side. If you look carefully at the footage, even when it’s dark, you’ll often be able to spot points of light in the darkness caused by light sources on Earth like cities.

You can scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the highlights videos, which show a few minutes’ worth of clips of beautiful views of Earth from the experiment.

If you want a convenient way to view footage of the view from the International Space Station, you could also turn to this livestream on YouTube. Though it isn’t NASA official or from the International Space Station, it shows high-quality footage of the view, and when the official stream is offline it replays older footage — so you’ll be able to watch relaxing and fascinating views at any time of day. When the footage is live, a red box with “Live Now” shows in the top left corner of the screen.