Very interesting timelapse from space.
Notice the little air-trafick in Africa, now you know why things are so difficult to get done here :-)
This is a 24 hour observation of all of the large aircraft flights in the world, sped up to a 70 sec timelapse.
I found this on the Tracks4Africa forum, thanks to Gerhard Lotz for sharing.
From space we look like a bee hive of activity.
What you will see, is a video showing air traffic around the world for 24 hours, taken from a satellite.
You won't believe this! The yellow dots are airplanes in the sky during a 24 hour period.
You will see the light of the day moving from the east to the west, as the Earth spins on its axis.
Also you will see the aircraft flow of traffic leaving the North American continent and travelling at night to arrive in the UK in the morning.
Then you will see the flow changing, leaving the UK in the morning and flying to the American continent in daylight.
This is quite cool.
With this 24 hour observation of aircraft travel on the earth's surface we get to see the daylight pattern move as well. Remember watch the day to night.....