Earth Day Timelapse
Science educator James Drake put together one of the first ISS flyover videos. A time-lapse of Planet Earth, created from images produced by the geostationary Electro-L Weather Satellite. The images were obtained beginning on May 14th, and end on May 20th. The images are the largest whole disk images of our planet, each image is 121 megapixels, and the resolution is 1 kilometer per pixel. They are taken every half hour, and have been interpolated (smoothed) to create this video. The images are taken in four different wavelengths of light, three visible, and one infrared. The infrared light is reflected by forests and vegetation, which appear orange in these images.
Videos Copyright James Drake
Look how brown our once green and blue planet is now. Most of the plants and trees are dead now. The planet looks more dirt and water than anything else.
The infrared light is reflected by forests and vegetation, which appear orange in these images.
what a beautiful jewel of a planet, what a gift to us all! I hope we can all help to look after it better as time goes on…..