our dancing waters

[asakiyume]

From NASA, A beautiful visualization of ocean currents, showing how the waters of Planet Earth move.

(Good for story research, too)

Watch on YouTube

Here is a link to the NASA page where you can download the video.

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Oh, look at those patterns! (I know this is dumb, but my first thought was, 'acting just like water!' Because the swirls remind me of putting food coloring of some other colored liquid in water, jiggling it, and watching the patterns as it spreads and diffuses)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean, though, absolutely! These images (or ones like them) were featured in an article that compared them to Van Gogh's Starry Sky, too.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

This makes you realise how vast Australia's Great Barrier Reef is! You can actually see it moderating the ocean flow!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yes! Very, very cool.

[duccio.livejournal.com]

And how vast is the Pacific Ocean, which seems to be 1/2 of the globe. Very cool video. What a fab planet we have.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Don't we just!

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Now I know that Van Gogh must have been able to astral travel. :D I saw your comment about him being mentioned in an article that relates to these images, so I'm not the only one who thinks so. :P

And how cool are the patterns around the equator! ♥

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

sartorias was talking about food coloring in water and how it swirls, and that got me remembering/realizing: fluid dynamics. So pretty. Anything that swirls and eddies like that (sand and snow, too, and smoke).

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

My internet is being temperamental and tells me only that"an error has occurred; please try again later." But the still picture was lovely! :)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry! I hope it will work later. Let me get you the link to the actual NASA site: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=3827&button=search&value=ECCO2

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

Whoops! Thanks! In my excitement, I commented below instead of here! :)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Hee, no worries at all ^_^

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Yup, Van Gogh was the first thing I thought of as well. :p

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

PROOF that Van Gogh visited the future.

[oiktirmos.livejournal.com]

In Doctor Who, Van Gogh did visit the future. The question is, "Is Doctor Who really fantasy?'

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It's a documentary *cleverly disguised* as fantasy!

[cecile-c.livejournal.com]

It's so pretty! Now I understand why it's so warm in Western Europe compared to the same latitudes in Canada, the Gulf Stream looks like steam getting out of a pressure cooker ;)

(and that's possibly the first thing I see where the Mediterranean looks so dull compared to the rest!)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I said the same thing about the Gulf Stream, but then my husband reminded me that the Gulf Stream is an **air** current, and that we're looking here at *ocean* currents. I imagine they must run more or less in parallel, though--and when you think that we have patterns like this in both the air and the water, it just makes the dance of the planet seem all the more complex and beautiful.

[cecile-c.livejournal.com]

It's an air current?? Huh. The things you think you know...

belay that--he was wrong!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I just checked, and it **is** an ocean current.
So you and I were right :D

Maybe he was confused because he was thinking of the *jet* stream.

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

Oh, how beautiful!! How lovely the world is! Thank you!!

(very much indeed! :) )

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

So glad you were able to see it ♥