Days Since Incident
I love this list of ever-increasing timelines. All that’s missing is the time since the Carrington Event, just to remind us what could happen when the next one hits.
Link tags: earth
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Earth Restored — Toby Ord
Beautifully restored high-resolution photographs of the Earth taken by Apollo astronauts.
Project Orbital Ring
An Orbital Ring System as an alternative to a space elevator.
Representing nothing short of the most ambitious project in the history of space exploration and exploitation, the Orbital Ring System is more or less what you would imagine it to be, a gargantuan metal ring high above the Earth, spanning the length of its 40,000 kilometer-long diameter.
We Are As Gods
A forthcoming documentary about Stewart Brand (with music by Brian Eno).
Earthrise on Vimeo
Jim Lovell, Frank Borman, and Bill Anders describe the overview effect they experienced on the Apollo 8 mission …and that photo.
Glittering Blue
Scroll around this massive video of a timelapse of one day’s footage from the Himawari 8 satellite in geostationary orbit around our homeworld.
The International Flag of Planet Earth
A proposed flag for the planet.
The Golden Record
We asked you to tell us what you’d put on a new Golden Record. Here’s what you chose.
Ever thought about what you’d put on the Voyager golden record? Well, what are you waiting for? Your website can be your time capsule.
Seeing Earth from Outer Space
A lovely interactive photo essay charting the results of what happens when evolution produces a life form that allows a planet to take selfies.
Stuff in Space
A gorgeous visualisation of satellites in Earth orbit. Click around to grasp the scale of the network.
Glittering Blue
Earth as seen on one day in 2015 from Himawari-8. Beautiful.
Deep Time : A History of the Earth
This infographic offers a visual way to explore the various stages of the Earth’s history using a 12 hour clock analogy.
Asteroid Day
This is an awareness project I can get behind: a Clarke-like Project Spaceguard to protect the Earth from asteroid collisions. This campaign will focus awareness of this issue on one single day…
Now if only the front page of this website actually said when that day will be.
Update: And now it does.
Earth wind map
A beautiful real-time visualisation of winds on our planet.
The hits keep going… | MetaFilter
This gives me a warm fuzzy glow. The Mefites are using Radio Free Earth to find out which stars are receiving the number one hits from their birthdays.
A Breathing Earth
Beautiful animated GIFs showing the lungs of our planet.
Stratocam
Communal satellite eyes. A Mac screensaver is also available.
Black Marble - City Lights 2012 - a set on Flickr
Gorgeous pictures from the Suomi satellite, just released by NASA
View from the ISS at Night on Vimeo
Another beautiful timelapse video made from photographs taken from the International Space Station.
The music from Sunshine gets me every time.