Earth's Auroras and Thunderstorms: A Dramatic View from Space

We’ve shown you What a Hurricane Looks Like From Outer Space and NASA’s 7 Minute Tour of the Earth from Space (in HD). Now comes new high resolution footage from the International Space Station that gives you a dramatic view of coastlines and countries around the world.

Produced by Space Rip, this clip will give you an extraordinary view of England, France, Italy, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Greece, the island of Crete, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, the United States, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Cuba.

Find this video housed in our collection of 125 Great Science Videos. If you love space travel, astronomy, physics, neuroscience or technology, then you will definitely want to spend time rummaging through the collection.

Giant world map made from recycled computers

"British artist Susan Stockwell


recently completed this gigantic world map (21 feet x 13 feet)


made from recycled computer components


for the University of Bedfordshire.


Entitled 'World,'


the piece has been in progress since 2010


and uses motherboards, electrical wiring, fans, and myriad other components."


The artist appears above

NASA’s Newest Map of the World

In June 2009, NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey put the finishing touches on a new collection of mapped images covering the entire land surface of the Earth and made them available to anyone, anywhere in the world, absolutely free.

The result of a collaboration between NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the U.S. National Geospatial Agency, the Global Land Survey 2005 features around 9,500 images from NASA’s Landsat satellites captured between 2004–2007.

The images are detailed enough to make out features as small as 30 meters (about one-third the length of an American football field), they have been carefully screened for clouds, and each one shows the landscape during its growing season.

Some of the images are as striking as a piece of artwork. Stitched together into a single mosaic, the collection paints the most detailed picture of Earth’s land surface a person can get for free.

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