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Uploaded by on Jul 15, 2010

WORLD AIR TRAFFIC 0-24 HRS. VIEW FROM SATELLITE.

Run time: 1:12

You won't believe this.The yellow dots are airplanes in the sky during a 24 hour period.

Open the attached file and 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 traveling 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.

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  • holy shiteurope and north america and japan and china

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