(Drivebycuriosity) - If you are in Manhattan you might go the Lower East Side. On Ludlow Street you can see a huge screen which displays Nasa images from the earth, almost in real time (
google.com/maps). The Led structure, called "bluMarble" belongs to the artist Sebastian Errazuriz (
meetsebastian.com).
Sebastian and his team created a bot that scrapes live photographs from a
NASA satellite and merges them in an exclusive software that generates a
slow progression between still images to compose a live video of Earth
as seen from space. Typically used to monitor and study daily variations
of vegetation, ozone, aerosols, clouds, reflectivity, etc., these
new-generation satellites allow the live stream of our ever-changing
Earth.
On the huge screen you can watch how fast the shadow of the earth is moving. The pictures above this paragraph are from 4:31 pm through 5:46 pm US east coast time.
Above this paragraph the night has approached, these images are from 7:09mpm & 8:00 pm. It is interesting that the day-nigh line is vertical. In June the
dividing line would run diagonal and the northern hemisphere would be mostly in
day light whether the southern would be mostly dark.
The images above focus on Northern America, then the Caribbean & Southern America .Between the clouds you can see the huge Amazon basin.
Above some night images, from about 8:56 pm. The light spots illustrate how densely the US East Coast and the shores around Florida are populated. You also can see some light spots from the Caribbean.
Stay tuned!
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