Hear NASA Earth data: night lights, measured sea temperature, ocean currents, dust, lightning, carbon dioxide, forest height, atmospheric rivers and air quality.
Human activity
Earth at night
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2012
2023
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Flash counts by five-second interval
Text summary of this map
How to listen
What the sound represents
Reading the data
Keyboard shortcuts
- Space Play or pause
- ← → ↑ ↓ Move the region, or seek 5 seconds on lightning
- H Hear the region
- R Restart
- A Hear A, then B
- S Toggle the text summary
- J Start or stop the jukebox
With a mouse, drag across a map to play it like an instrument.
Sources & credits
2026 NASA Space Apps Challenge: The Earth Information Jukebox
ITSTEP Cherkasy Houston, We're Fine · Matviy and Nikita