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Uploaded by on Apr 14, 2009

This is cool. It is a 24 hour observation of the movement of all the large aircraft flights in the world, condensed down to about 2 minutes.

From space it looks like a bee hive of activity. You can tell it is summer time in the north by the sun's footprint over the planet. You can see that it doesn't quite set in the extreme north and it doesn't quite rise in the extreme south. I have never seen this before. We are taught about the earth's tilt and how it causes summer and winter in the opposite hemisphere, but to see just what is going on - WOW. With this 24-hour observation of aircraft travel on the earth's surface we get to see the daylight pattern change as our timer 'moves' across the planet (and by noting where the 'sun is shining' in the northern hemisphere, across the top of the 'movie', you can estimate the time of day).

Each yellow dot is a plane in the air. Watch the concentration of the dots change as daylight comes and goes. Want to be an air traffic controller?

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  • I just love this video combined with the song! Amazing!

  • I think every day is 99% the same as the previous day.

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  • How did u get that?

  • The cool thing is see how the traffic changes when the night/day come! And some "lost" planes near to antartida!

  • Nice 5/5

  • 'How to save a life' - The Fray! :)

  • who sings this?

  • AMAZING! very nice, its going to go in my favourites! much many planes Europe -USA. 10* :)

  • lol, at the end europe had very little traffic. I can not believe that with this much traffic there are so few mid air accidents. And many planes produced.

  • Far out! look at Europe

    Awesome idea! If you could, you should make one of these like once a day, so then we could see where planes have flown that day!

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