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Wind map of USA. March 27, 2012 5:00 pm, top speed: 30.1 mph, average: 11.7 mph, (Click to see the animated map, awesome)
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This visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through December 2007. The visualization does not include a narration or annotations; the goal was to use ocean flow data to create a simple, visceral experience.
More info and download here (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Scientific Visualization Studio)
At rest on the seabed: The wreck of the Titanic as never seen before after sonar images reveal details of the doomed liner. (MailOnline)
The large bow and stern sections which rest about half a mile apart from each other can be seen in this sonar image. They separated when the ship split apart as it began to sink.
Part of the Hawaiian Island Chain (7 Oct. 2010)
While on an orbit that took the International Space Station over the Pacific Ocean, one of the Expedition 25 crew members captured this image of part of the Hawaiian Island chain. While most of the islands are covered by clouds, Hawaii, the largest of them, is visible at lower center. A Russian Soyuz (foreground) and a Russian Progress vehicle are docked to the massive space station.
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Clouds over the Pacific viewed from Space Shuttle.
Credits: NASA
Source: The Campaign for Berkeley and the Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley.
“What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth…. The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots…. When I watched the horizon, I saw the abrupt, contrasting transition from the earth’s light-colored surface to the absolutely black sky. I enjoyed the rich color spectrum of the earth. It is surrounded by a light blue aureole that gradually darkens, becoming turquiose, dark blue, violet, and finally coal black.”
