On one of the busiest travel days of the year in the United States, here's a visualization of the human footprint... (red = flights, blue = ships, green = roads, yellow = lights) Graphic from NOAA's Science On a Sphere: sos.noaa.gov/catalog/data... - ThreadSky

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zacklabe.com • 96 days ago

On one of the busiest travel days of the year in the United States, here's a visualization of the human footprint...

(red = flights, blue = ships, green = roads, yellow = lights)

Graphic from NOAA's Science On a Sphere: https://sos.noaa.gov/catalog/datasets/human-transportation/

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the0point.bsky.social•96 days ago

Wow this is an amazing graphic. To be so simplistic, its just three places that seem to be accounting for much of this progress.

akdjm.bsky.social•95 days ago

I'm amazed at how much the lights of the Fairbanks, Alaska area stand out. I suppose two major military installations help.

xtwitabout.bsky.social•96 days ago

Is this from the 2015 data?
If so, it would be much worse now!

laforetacoeur.bsky.social•96 days ago

📌

oakandfen.bsky.social•96 days ago

Ugh😢
No wonder the night sky is no longer visible to most.
What have we lost when we can’t connect with the stars ,planets, Milky Way ….?
And of course, there are the emissions/pollution(which perpetuate our global dimming Faustian bargain)and all the habitat destruction.😭

40n70w.bsky.social•96 days ago

I wanted to "like" it because it's beautiful, but then I think of all the CO2 being emitted....

galsdio.bsky.social•91 days ago

When Data science meets with geopolitics with the help of worldwide news articles.

https://medium.com/@aliounegdiop/president-bassirou-diomaye-faye-discovering-the-senegalese-geopolitical-landscape-through-global-0d614605ac46

llfarm.bsky.social•96 days ago

Very interesting! NOAA does amazing work.

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