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The full NASA satellite archive as daily global mosaics, with a date slider you can drag back two decades to watch ice, dust and smoke move.
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NASA Worldview sits in Live Earth Maps under Wander, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Live data drawn on a map: storms, earthquakes, lightning, shipping, wildlife. Open one and the planet stops being an abstraction.
Yes. NASA Worldview is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use NASA Worldview without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file NASA Worldview as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
Raw Sentinel and Landsat imagery for anywhere on the planet, free, with band combinations that reveal crops, floods and old burn scars.
Solar flares, sunspot counts and geomagnetic storm levels in real time, plus the aurora forecast that decides whether tonight is worth the drive.
Every earthquake recorded anywhere in the last thirty days, sized by magnitude and clickable all the way down to the seismograph traces.
Which of the world's volcanoes are erupting today, each with webcams, seismic charts and a running diary of what the mountain has been doing.
Canada put its entire animation and documentary archive online for free, and some of it is the strangest work any government ever funded.
Georeferenced Ordnance Survey sheets you can fade against satellite imagery to see exactly what got demolished.
Rhizome's restored survey of a hundred works of net art, each with the context needed to understand why it mattered.
A British studio that made pixel-perfect browser games for fifteen years and then put the entire back catalogue up free.
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