Earth's Breath

An American data visual designer, John Nelson, created an interesting animation called “A Breathing Earth”, which clearly shows the weather changes on our planet. Based on NASA data from the Visible Earth archive project. A total of 12 Earth images were used (one for each month of the year), which are compiled into animated GIF files.

The animation is fascinating. Our planet is a breathing living organism:
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Big version (1.4 MB), very large version (3.7 MB)



Big version (3 MB), very large version (8.9 MB)

PS In the designer's blog you can find many more excellent examples of data visualization.