Here’s a view looking at one year of seasonal transformations on Earth. Made possible by the tremendous folks of the NASA Visible Earth team, I downloaded the twelve cloud-free satellite imagery mosaics of Earth (“Blue Marble Next Generation”) at each month of the year. I wrapped them into some fun projections then stitched them together into a couple animated gifs…
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Thanks to Marc Lee.













It makes Vancouver look like we get lots of snow in winter!
The Alaskan State Museum has a gallery with a five foot sphere showing this image since the 1800’s – next Alaskan cruise check it out.