Old Oct 29, 2009 | 07:28 PM
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Default This is very cool! READ BEFORE OPENING THE ATTACHMENT

This is very cool. READ BEFORE clicking on the link

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


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


Stay with the picture. You will see the light of day moving from the east to the west, as the Earth spins on

it's axis.


Also you will see the aircraft flow of traffic leaving the North American continent and travelling 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.


We are taught about the earth's tilt and how it causes summer and winter and have had to imagine just

what is going on. Now you can see it.


With this 24 hour observation of aircraft travel on the earth's surface, we get to see the daylight pattern

move as well.


https://www.crossfireforum.org/galle...affic0-24h.wmv
 

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