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Archive for the 'Earth' Category
Video: Major meteor over Canada
You might have heard about the substantial (a few tons) meteor crashing down on this planet last week in Canada. Here’s some footage from a police camera showing how it looked from Edmonton, Canada where the thing came down.
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Space: Animated Aurora from Orbit
Astronaut Don Pettit created an astounding video using a sequence of still images he shot of the aurora borealis from the International Space Station.
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Painting climate change in Bangladesh
UK newspaper The Guardian has a gallery of eight paintings created by the Bangladesh government and NGOs to teach people in rural Bangladesh about climate change and how to adapt to it.
Like in other areas or countries around the world populated mainly by people who can’t read or write, screenplays, songs and dramas are used to communicate the change…
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Data Visualization: Stormpulse
While not intended as an official weather forecast, Stormpulse has a huge database of major storms and hurricanes since the 1850s.
Based on data from the National Hurricane Center, Satellite stations and Nasa, data of current and past storms is visualized and continuously updated. Additionally you can check the latest news and satellite images of the area where the storm is passing through.
Stormpulse also provides an API that enables…
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Environment: The Planet animation
The Swedish web site forskning.se together with a group of Swedish environment and research agencies has created an excellent interactive animation on fundamentals, issues and problems of the planet we’re living on…
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Space: Gaja calling
f “Contact” with Jodie Foster was your kind of movie then you should have a look at the real-life version of sounds and noises recorded in space.
Watch the video for the sounds Gaja sends out into space that might be heard by other “aliens” on their planets…
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