World Air Traffic in 24 hours
This is a very cool video that I stumbled upon on youtube.
It is a 24 hour observation of all of the large aircraft flights in the world, recorded by plane flight transponders, via Geo-stationary orbital satellites all compressed to a min.
From space we look like a bee hive of activity.
You could tell it was summer time in the north by the suns foot print
over the planet. You could see that it didn’t quite set in the extreme
north and it didn’t quite rise in the extreme south.
I have never seen anything like this before this before.
We are taught about the earths tilt and how it causes summer and winter
and have had to imagine just what is going on, now the “tilt” is visable
With this 24 hour observation of aircraft travel on the earths surface we
get to see the daylight pattern move as well across the face of the planet.
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