NASA | Earth from Orbit 2013

A fleet of orbiting satellites monitors Earth constantly. The satellites from NASA and other space agencies give us a fresh, wide perspective on things that we can see from the ground -- and things that we can't.

A look back at Earth in 2013 from the viewpoint of orbit reveals the kind of data gathering and technical achievement that are the reason NASA puts Earth-observing satellites in space. A visualization of satellite and computer model data shows how a cloud of dust from the Chelyabinsk meteor moved around the world. NASA satellites measured the intensity of wildfires, the salinity of the oceans and rainfall around the globe -- whether it was too little or too much.

Imagery used in this video, in order:
Views of a Distant Earth
Earth and Moon
Current Earth Observing Fleet
Term3_ISS From Night to Day to Night Again
Astronaut View of Fires in Colorado
Extensive Ice Fractures in the Beaufort Sea
Dune Movement Around Aorounga
San Francisco Region at Night
Whiting Event, Lake Ontario
Dust Plumes over the Mediterranean
Mt. St. Helens
El Paso
Close-Up of Flooding in Mozambique
Drought Dries Elephant Butte Reservoir
Oklahoma Tornadoes
Floods in Colorado
Pavlof Volcano
Swirling Sediment Reveals Erosive Power of New England Storm
Never at Rest: The Air over Los Angeles
Measuring Soil Moisture from Space
Antarctic Bedrock
Seeing Photosynthesis from Space
Greenland's Mega Canyon
Chelyabinsk Bolide Plume as seen by NPP and NASA Models
Narrated Distributed Water Balance of the Nile Basin
NEO Observations (various)