What Are Those Blue Lights? A Night Above Earth from the ISS in 8K

Brilliant blue-green lights stand out among the city lights below as the International Space Station travels inland from the Indian Ocean toward Asia. With docked spacecraft in the foreground and stars beyond Earth’s horizon, this nighttime view captures the experience of looking back from an orbiting outpost. The blue-green clusters are likely fishing boats using powerful lamps to attract marine life. NASA has documented similar fishing lights in the Andaman Sea and Gulf of Thailand, although the exact location of the clusters in this sequence has not been confirmed. Created from 3,200 sequential photographs captured on March 1, 2026, this 8K timelapse follows a photographed ground track over Myanmar, China, and Russia. The camera looks backward along the station’s flight path. The globe