Bella Gaia: a Poetic Vision of Earth from Space

Bella Gaia (Beautiful Earth) [bellagaia.com] is an audio visual “Living Atlas” journey of our world, expressing the beauty of planet Earth as seen through the eyes of astronauts, with the aim of raising the awareness and appreciation of our home planet. Created by director and violist Kenji Williams, the 45-minute movie is meant to be watched in an immersive theater, such as a fulldome planetarium space. The movie is based on the stunning orbital imagery created by SCISS’ Uniview software and NASA, and shows data ranging from oil consumption and air traffic, over Earth’s magnetosphere and polar sub storms to time-lapse images of the Arctic ice melt.

You can watch a 5 minute sample movie and some talks from the people behind its design, below.

Via Datavisualization.ch and Treehugger.

See also MobileGlobe, Britain Seen from Above, Visualizing all Flight in 24 Hours, Data-Drive 3D Globe and Flight Patterns.

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