AURORA is a natural light display in the sky, particularly in the polar regions, caused by the collision of charged particles directed by the Earth’s magnetic field.
This film, produced by Flat Light Films for Visit Finland, the official travel site of Finland, is an amazing selection of...
May
18
Art of Synchronization
When I tried recently to tell a friend about a remarkable video that captures a starling murmuration above Ireland’s River Shannon, the best comparison I could come up with was the animated imagery of electronic music visualization. You’ve seen it: that spiral animation...
Jan
13
If you’ve ever flown in an airliner at 30,000 feet on a clear day, the view from nearly six miles up is probably something you’ll never forget. Imagine, then, looking down from 245 miles in orbit aboard the International Space Station, (ISS), where the view is always clear and the earth...
Sep
23
The Galápagos’s Sierra Negra volcano erupts, sending rivers of lava into its caldera.
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Sep
03
The GOES-13 animation above, from Aug. 19, 2011, through Aug. 22, 2011, (1545 UTC/11: 45 a.m. EDT) shows the progression of Tropical Storm Harvey through the western Caribbean Sea and to the east, the birth of Hurricane Irene on Aug. 20.
Over the weekend, Harvey made landfall in Belize and on...
Aug
22
Hurricane Isabel as seen from the International Space Station on September 15 2003, after being downgraded from a Category 5 to Category 4. Three days later, Isabel made landfall in North Carolina as a weakened Category 2. Damage extended inland through Pennsylvania and West Virginia, while...
Aug
22
The animation above, courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory, shows wildfires that occurred on a monthly basis across the globe between March 2000 and June 2011. The colors are based on a count of the number (not size) of fires observed within a 1,000-square-kilometer area.
White pixels show the high...
Aug
09
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Jul
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