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)
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)
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)
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).
(via BoingBoing)
Putting James Cameron’s 11km dive to the Mariana Trench into perspective.
Source OurAmazingPlanet.com, Exploring the wonder and beauty of planet Earth through exclusive news, features and images.
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)
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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