<text>  Anyone who has flown back from a holiday at night will have marvelled at the twinkling blanket of lights that cover towns and cities after dark. But the crew of the ISS has gone one better, by capturing this light show from the International Space Stations orbit around 250 miles 400km above the Earth. The six-second Vine loop was posted at 9.32pm GMT last night and shows the station soaring over the UK and Scandinavia. Scroll down for video . The bright section of light in the east of the UK is London pictured. Cornwall and Devon are in relative darkness. As the station moves towards Scandinavia, the bright lights of Brussels and Antwerp in Belgium and Rotterdam in The Netherlands can be seen . The Vine was taken by Expedition 42 crew member Samantha Cristoferetti. During the clip, the ISS begins by approaching the UK from the south west hitting Cornwall first, the north west coast of France is visible in the bottom right-hand corner but Paris is just out of shot. The bright section of light in the east of the UK is London, while Devon and Cornwall are in relative darkness. And as the station moves towards Scandinavia, the bright lights of Brussels and Antwerp in Belgium and Rotterdam in The Netherlands can be seen. The 37-year-old flight engineer - alongside her colleagues commander Barry Wilmore, flight engineer Terry Virts and Russian cosmonauts Elena Serova, Alexander Samoukutyaev and Anton Shkaplerov - has been on board the station since 9 November last year. Tweeting the Vine from her astrosamantha Twitter handle, Ms Cristoferetti wrote: Of all the lights from UK to Scandinavia...which ones are yours? spacevine. The Italian astronaut then posted the same tweet in her native language . The team is due to return to Earth in May. Tweeting the Vine from her astrosamantha Twitter handle, Ms Cristoferetti wrote: Of all the lights from UK to Scandinavia...which ones are yours? spacevine. The Italian astronaut then posted the same tweet in her native language. During her four-month stay on the station Ms Cristoferreti has filmed herself getting a haircut in space and released a collection of images called Nasa: Landscapes. One of the most striking images in this collection shows the lights of the south coast of England and the north coast of France, taken above the English Channel in January. The 37-year-old flight engineer - alongside her colleagues commander Barry Wilmore, flight engineer Terry Virts and Russian cosmonauts Elena Serova, Alexander Samoukutyaev and Anton Shkaplerov - has been on board the station pictured since 9 November last year . The current Expedition 42 crew on ISS recently created a collection of images taken from the station of landscapes on Earth. One of the most striking photos shows the glittering lights of the south coast of England and the north coast of France, taken above the English Channel in January pictured. It shows concentrations of light in major towns and in the distance a green light that looks like the Northern Lights glows . It shows concentrations of light in major cities and towns and in the distance, on the curvature of the Earth, a green light that looks like the Northern Lights glows. The entire International Space Station was spun 180 degrees yesterday and lowered slightly in its orbit last month so that visiting spacecraft can bring more cargo to the station. The remarkable manoeuvre saw a European spacecraft slow the speed of the station. This changed the height of its orbit by about 1.6 miles 2.5km, before the station was spun back again to its original position. This is the same location where this Vine was taken. The International Space Station is marking its 15th anniversary of continuous human occupation on 2 November this year and since Expedition 1 in 2000, the space station has been visited by more than 215 people. As of November 2014, there have been 100 Russian launches, 37 space shuttle launches, one test flight and three operational flights by SpaceXs Dragon as well as a test flight and two operational flights by Orbital Sciences Cygnus. A total of 184 spacewalks have been conducted in support of space station assembly totaling over 1,152 hours, or approximately 48 days. The space station, including its large solar arrays, spans the area of a U.S. football field, including the end zones, and weighs 924,739 pounds. The complex now has more livable room than a conventional six-bedroom house, and has two bathrooms, a gymnasium and a 360-degree bay window. A second image in the Nasa: Landscapes collection was taken above the big island of Hawaii in the North Pacific Ocean. It was captured on 28 February and the peaks of volcanoes Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea can be seen in the centre of the 4,028 square mile 10,432 square kilometre land mass. Mauna Loa is the worlds largest, and one of its most active, volcanoes . 