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NASA released this video towards the end of last year to show how C02 travels around the earth. The ultra-high resolution computer model will help scientists understand the spread of the gas.
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Will you be taking any extra steps in 2015 to help protect Planet Earth?
If you’re looking for green options online then Green People‘s organic lifestyle site might interest you. Techies might like to switch to Green Batteries or shop at the Ultimate Green Store.
Filmed from the geostationary Elektro-L weather satellite the video uses pictures taken over a 5-day period in 2011.
The satellite is located more than 35,000km above the Indian Ocean and orbits at such a speed that it remains over the same spot on Earth as the planet rotates.
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Do you think the video is beautiful? It’s gone viral with more than half a million people watching all four minutes of it?
If you’re into photography the sites like BH Photo, Photobox or even Lidl photos might interest you. None of them offer geostationary weather satellites.
You should watch this video and learn about the “Anthropocene”. This is a new era for the world – one in which the growth of mankind is a force equivalent in scale to a major geological process.
Or perhaps you don’t care – if that’s the case then the animation is still worth watching. It’s fantastic.
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Do you think we have what it takes to manage the Earth safely and correctly? Or need we not worry?
Most people know that a leap year happens every 4 years and adds an extra day to February. That’s wrong. The leap year is a little more complex than that. It’s not a leap year if it’s also a century year. That is, well, there’s a complication to that as well…
This video explains what a leap year is and why we have them. Years are based on the Earth travelling around the Sun. However, the calculations don’t evenly fit into exact days – despite our best efforts. The leap year is part of the adjustment.
It’s all connected to the sun destroying the planet. Kinda.
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Are you doing anything special to mark this leap year?
Saturday, March the 19th, was a “Super Moon” was the sateilite got as close to Earth as it will at any time during 2011. The moon reached a distance as short as a mere 221, 565 miles from the planet.
The term “supermoon” dates back to 1979 when the astrologer Richard Nolle defined it as;
…a new or full moon which occurs with the Moon at or near (within 90% of) its closest approach to Earth in a given orbit (perigee). In short, Earth, Moon and Sun are all in a line, with Moon in its nearest approach to Earth.
Around the world some fantastic photographs where taken. Here’s a short selection!
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Which is your favourite? If you know of a better one then why not link to it in the comment section below?
