Tag Archives: Earth

Earth Images Visualizations

History of Earth – [VISUALIZATION]

History of Earth in 24-hour clock

The history of Earth in a single 24-hour clock image…puts the experience of the human race on earth into context.

(via exp.lore.com)

Time-lapse Video

Meteor Shower Over Joshua Tree – [TIME-LAPSE]

Nature photographer Henry Jun Wah Lee documents last month’s Perseid meteor shower, before a backdrop of California’s Joshua Tree National Park and the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest.

(via broadsheet)

Earth Graphs and Charts Images

Planet Earth: The other 70% – [CHART]

Randall Munroe’s “Lakes and Oceans” is another in his beautiful series of charts visualizing large complex things and putting them in proportion to objects we can understand (BTW that tower is the Burj Khalifa – the tallest building in the world).
Lakes and Oceans

(via BoingBoing)

Infographic Travel

Our Amazing Planet: Top to Bottom – [INFOGRAPHIC]

Putting James Cameron’s 11km dive to the Mariana Trench into perspective.
Our Amazing Planet explores Earth from its peaks to it mysterious depths.
Source OurAmazingPlanet.com, Exploring the wonder and beauty of planet Earth through exclusive news, features and images.

Time-lapse Video

Stars and Earth from Space Station – [TIME-LAPSE]

Alex Rivest’s beautiful timelapse of the stars from low earth orbit, as viewed from the International Space Station.

The Stars as Viewed from the International Space Station. from AJRCLIPS on Vimeo.

(via wired)

Time-lapse Video

Red Aurora Australis – [TIME-LAPSE]

Photographer Alex Cherney’s timelapse of the Southern Lights from from Mornington peninsula, near Melbourne. He describes how the red color of the aurora is caused by the charged particles from the Sun exciting oxygen atoms high in the Earth’s atmosphere.

Red Aurora Australis from Alex Cherney on Vimeo.

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