Video: A View Of A Breathing Earth

This false-color image, Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8, shows the Atchafalaya Delta in Louisiana on Dec. 1, 2016. The colors emphasize the difference between land and water while allowing viewers to observe waterborne sediment, which is typically absent from false-color imagery.

In this visualization, based on data collected by scientists, we see Earth changing — its plants, surface winds and sea currents responding to the energy coming from the sun, says Marcelo Gleiser.

(Image credit: Joshua Stevens/NASA Earth Observatory)