International Space Station — orbits Earth every 90 minutes at 28,000 km/h.

Thousands of public traffic & panorama cameras — Alps & Germany, London, Finland, Hong Kong, North America, New Zealand. Zoom in to see them.

Live seismic events from USGS. Circle size = magnitude. Updated every 5 min.

Active fire detection by NASA FIRMS satellites. Near real-time hotspots.

Solar terminator — the real-time boundary between day and night on Earth.

National boundaries with country name labels. Data: Natural Earth.

Government systems by country — democracy, autocracy, or hybrid regime.

NATO, BRICS, EU, ASEAN — major geopolitical alliance networks.

Currently active war zones and armed conflicts worldwide.

Submarine fiber optic cables — 95% of global internet traffic travels here.

Major oil & gas pipelines — the arteries of global energy supply.

Operational nuclear power stations and their energy output worldwide.

Sea surface temperature from NOAA. Red = warmer, blue = cooler than average.

Land surface temperature data showing global heat distribution.

Global population heatmap — bright areas = high population concentration.

Historically active volcanoes from Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

Notable nuclear accident sites — Chernobyl, Fukushima, and others.

SpaceX Starlink satellite constellation — 5,000+ internet satellites in orbit.

Animated wind particle visualization from Open-Meteo forecast data.

Real-time aurora borealis/australis probability from NOAA OVATION model.

Meteors that exploded in the atmosphere since 2022 (NASA). Almost all burn up completely. Circle size = explosion energy — click one for the explanation.

Largest religious group per country, coloured by tradition. Click a country for the full breakdown. Source: Pew Research Center, 2020.