“Heartbeat”

The Earth’s Seasonal “Heartbeat” as Seen from Space -- as the seasons change on #Earth, temperatures rise and fall, plants grow or die, ice forms or melts away. Perhaps nobody is more aware of this than NASA’s Visible Earth team who provide a vast catalog of images of our home planet as seen from space. Despite having encountered numerous seasonal timelapse videos shot here on Earth, this is the first time I’ve ever seen anything like this visualized on such a large scale from space. It really looks like a heartbeat or the action of breathing.

This is the work of designer, cartographer, and dataviz expert John Nelson.