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Disco44
15th June 2010, 10:46 PM
Subject: WORLD AIR TRAFFIC 0-24 HRS. VIEW FROM SATELLITE



How many people do YOU think are in the sky at any given moment?

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What you will see, is a video showing air traffic around the world for 24 hours, taken from a satellite.
The yellow dots are airplanes in the sky during a 24 hour period.
Stay with the picture. You will see the light of the day moving from the east to the west, as the Earth spins on its axis.
Also you will see the aircraft flow of traffic leaving the North American continent and travelling at night to arrive in the UK in
the morning.
Then you will see the flow changing, leaving the UK in the morning and flying to the American continent in daylight.
It is a 24 hour observation of all of the large aircraft flights in the world, condensed down to about 2 minutes. From space we look
like a bee hive of activity.
You could tell it was summer time in the north by the sun's 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.
With this 24 hour observation of aircraft travel on the earth's surface we get to see the daylight pattern move as well.
Remember watch the day to night..... Day is over in Australia when it starts.

rockyroad
16th June 2010, 08:53 AM
That is so freaking cool, interesting even!!

MickS
16th June 2010, 08:56 AM
Cool..like bees swarming. And that's why it's safer than driving a car.

Ausfree
16th June 2010, 09:26 AM
Wow, certainly is like bees swarming, Europe looks particularly busy and you wonder how they avoid each other!!!!:)

windsock
16th June 2010, 09:36 AM
WOW, great to see patterns develop as the daylight moves across. interesting to note the NZ skies shut down at night then the early morning 'swarm' to Aust. Reciprocated about lunch time Aust time... ;)

I have the South African world cup vuvuzula drone in my head which seems to accompany that clip well... :eek:

VladTepes
16th June 2010, 10:19 AM
Too cool for school !