Earth time-lapse from 22,000 miles out

July 13, 2015

Topic

Maps / Earth, New York Times, satellite, time-lapse

Japan has a new weather satellite in stationary orbit, Himawari-8, that takes a picture of Earth every ten minutes. String those together and you get a super-detailed time-lapse video of the living planet, which is what Derek Watkins from the New York Times did.

Beautiful results.

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