Is there a 24 hour time lapse of air traffic?

This is a 24 hour observation of all of the large aircraft flights in the world, condensed down to 1:11. From space we look like a bee hive of activity. What you will see, is a video showing air traffic around the world for 24 hours, taken from a satellite. The yellow dots are airplanes in the sky during a 24 hour period. Stay with the picture.

How often does air traffic pulsate around the world?

It is fascinating to see the amount of traffic “pulsate” between the continents, as the day-night cycle progresses. The clip below shows a 24 hour time-lapse of air traffic around the world, compressed into about one minute! In the skies over the USA, there are 80-100 thousand flights every day!

Where did the 24 hour air traffic map come from?

The original version was created back in 2008 by Karl Rege and his team at the Zurich School of Applied Sciences and reposted as a four-second animation on Metrocosm.com. The map highlights the sheer volume of global air traffic. Both the US and Europe become a sea of yellow during daylight hours.

How to visualize 24 hours of air traffic?

If you’re struggling to visualize this incredible volume of daily air traffic, this animated map might help put it into perspective. The map simulates the route of every commercial flight over a 24-hour period based on arrival and departure data from the FlightStats website. Each flight is represented by a tiny yellow dot.

When do 24 hours of transatlantic flight start?

Following our previous time lapse showing 24 hours of flights over the United States, we’ve moved east to see what 24 hours of transatlantic flight looks like. This time lapse shows traffic over the North Atlantic from 0000 UTC to 2359 UTC on 6 May 2016.

How many flights take off and land each day?

The busyness of modern airspace poses significant challenges for air traffic controllers. Some 100,000 flights take off and land every day across the world. If you’re struggling to visualize this incredible volume of daily air traffic, this animated map might help put it into perspective.

What can you see in night time lapse of Earth?

On the horizon is the golden haze of Earth’s thin atmosphere, frequently decorated by dancing auroras as the video progresses. The green parts of auroras typically remain below the space station, but the station flies right through the red and purple auroral peaks.