One of my favourite things is to stumble upon interesting bits and pieces – cool graphics, neat ideas, words of wisdom etc. – and earlier this week I came across this little animation called The Breathing Earth. It’s a composite of monthly cloud-free geostationary satellite images of the Earth wrapped onto various map projections. The title refers to the changing appearance of the Earth’s surface through the year, with waxing and waning ice cover and north-south migrating tropical vegetation which gives the impression that the Earth is breathing with the seasons. It’s simple, but a neat visualisation of the continuously changing face of our planet.
Tim O'Hare 