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Watch the ocean currents turn the Earth into a living Van Gogh

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Who knew that our ocean currents were constantly painting Van Gogh’s Starry Night across the planet? This visualization, created by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, captures the surface currents that danced and twisted across Earth’s oceans from June 2005 through Decmeber 2007 while transporting heat and carbon through the waters.

Perpetual Ocean [via Neatorama]

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