World Air Traffic 24h

It is a 24-hour observation of all of the large aircraft flights in the world (recorded by the airplane flight transponders via Geo-stationary orbital satellites) patched together and condensed to about a minute, i.e., you watch 24 hours of flights compressed into one 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 in London Heathrow Airport)

Notice the reduction of activity in each region during the darkness of late night/early morning.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• Airplanes
• Air Traffic
• Satellite Images
• World

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