World Air Traffic As Seen from Space, 0-24 Hours Video

This is easily one of the most fascinating thing you will have seen your whole life. The video shows World Air Traffic for 24 hours as seen from Space (view from satellite). Each yellow dot represents a plane that’s in the air during a 24 hour period.

Since whole day of the World Air Traffic is captured on the video, you will see the day and night moving west from the east. It is amazing to take notice of how air traffic slows down and stops as night falls on an area. The least traffic seems to be in early morning hours of the day – between 2am and 5am.

You can also notice the overnight traffic from the USA to England timed to arrive in London in the morning. As the day progresses, the flights to Europe slow down and eventually stop and the traffic reverses with flights to the American continent. Air traffic over Europe is insane during daytime hours and the same happens in North America as European traffic slows down for the night.

Obviously, even though the video demonstrate the world air traffic, the yellow dots only represent larger aircraft. Smaller planes which are not equipped with transponders are not shown. Did you know that on a worldwide scale, 51,000 planes are in the air in any given minute? The pollution impact from air planes must be atrocious.

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