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Earth Orbiting Satellites
According to an inventory maintained by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), there are over 8000 individual satellites orbiting Earth. This animation depicts approximately 7300 of the active satellites in April 2023. The blue dots depict Low … Continue reading
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2020 Climate Digest
Three phenomena dominated the Climate of 2020: wildfires, hurricanes, and the COVID-19 pandemic. When Earth rotated into 2020, bush fires were raging in Australia. Smoke rose into the stratosphere and circled the globe for months. Later in the year, the … Continue reading
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100 years of SST anomalies
This animation reveals long-term trends in our oceans via a NOAA dataset depicting January sea surface temperature anomalies over the time period from 1921 through 2020. Anomalies are departures from average, in this case the average is from 1854 to … Continue reading
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