I History
II The Earth
- Nº 2 Earth Time Machine Every day of NASA satellite imagery since 2000.
- Nº 3 Live Weather Globe Today’s weather, clouds and earthquakes on one Earth.
- Nº 4 Air Time Machine NO₂, smoke, dust, CO, SO₂ and ozone from orbit, every day.
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Soon Daylight Atlas Day length everywhere through the year, and the Sun's figure-eight. In preparation
III The Sky & Beyond
- Nº 5 Night Sky Live The real sky above you, this minute.
- Nº 6 Born From Space The Earth and the sky on the day you were born.
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Soon The Sun Today Today's Sun from orbit, its spots, and where the aurora may be tonight. In preparation
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Soon Orrery The planets where they are right now, and how far light takes to reach the probes. In preparation
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Soon Is Anyone There? Stars with known planets, and how far Earth's first radio has travelled. In preparation
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Soon Message from Earth The Voyager Golden Record cover, decoded one diagram at a time. In preparation
IV Flow
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Soon Wind Tunnel Draw a shape and watch air flow past it, solved live in your browser. In preparation
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Soon Reynolds Number of Everything From bacteria to hurricanes: why every flow looks the way it does. In preparation
Tools
The ledger
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| Instrument | Measured by | Terms | Leaves your browser |
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| Empires Globe | Cliopatria borders, Seshat Global History Databank | CC BY 4.0 · Natural Earth, public domain | Nothing. Your time zone is read in the browser only, to pick the guide’s sample story; Wikipedia only if you tap a link |
| Night Sky Live | XHIP stars (Anderson & Francis 2012) · ESO Milky Way · CelesTrak orbits · d3-celestial figures | CC BY 4.0 (ESO, Open-Meteo) · BSD 3-Clause (d3-celestial) · MIT and OFL (bundled code and fonts) | Orbits of the ISS, Tiangong and Hubble from CelesTrak (twice a day at most); place searches to Open-Meteo |
| Earth Time Machine | NASA GIBS: MODIS, VIIRS, FIRMS | NASA, no US copyright | Map tiles requested from NASA GIBS |
| Live Weather Globe | Open-Meteo · U.S. Geological Survey · NASA GIBS · wheretheiss.at · CelesTrak (fallback) | CC BY 4.0 (Open-Meteo) · public domain (U.S. Geological Survey, NASA) · BigDataCloud terms · MIT and OFL (bundled code and fonts) | Weather, quake and space-station requests, paused while the tab is hidden; your position, only if you press “Where am I”, to Open-Meteo and BigDataCloud |
| Air Time Machine | NASA Aura OMI, Terra MODIS, Aqua AIRS and Suomi NPP OMPS via GIBS | NASA, no US copyright | Map tiles requested from NASA GIBS |
| Born From Space | NASA GIBS · Open-Meteo ERA5 · d3-celestial | NASA · CC BY 4.0 · BSD | The date and the city’s map area, to NASA and Open-Meteo. Never stored |
| Weather Dash | Open-Meteo · GeoNames place names | CC BY 4.0 (Open-Meteo, GeoNames) | The city you search for, to Open-Meteo |
| Pomodoro Timer | None | — | Nothing |
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