24 hrs of World Air Traffic compressed in 1 minute

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14 years 3 months ago #4034 by kees
A 24-hour observation of all the large aircraft flights in the world (from airplane flight transponders via geostationary orbital satellites) patched together and condensed to about a minute. You can see it is summer in the north by the location of sunlight on the planet. With this 24-hour observation of aircraft travel on the earth's surface, we also get to see the daylight pattern move across the planet. Note the intensity of traffic at London's Heathrow Airport. Notice the reduction of activity in each region during the darkness of late night/early morning.

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