Videos: Watch Earth’s vegetation vary over 20 years in time lapse of satellite imagery

This time lapse GIF shows earth’s plant life cycling over 20 years as seen by NASA and NOAA satellite earth observation imagery:

From space, satellites can see Earth breathe. A new NASA visualization shows 20 years of continuous observations of plant life on land and at the ocean’s surface, from September 1997 to September. 2017. On land, vegetation appears on a scale from brown (low vegetation) to dark green (lots of vegetation); at the ocean surface, phytoplankton are indicated on a scale from purple (low) to yellow (high). This visualization was created with data from satellites including SeaWiFS, and instruments including the NASA/NOAA Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer. Credits: NASA

More about this clip and other aspects of observing earth from space: Six Stories of Life That NASA Sees From Space | NASA.

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