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July 27, 2013

A Year of Sky on Earth

With 360 movie panels, the sky over (almost) an entire year is shown in time lapse format as recorded by a video camera on the roof of the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco, California.

With 360 movie panels, the sky over (almost) an entire year is shown in time lapse format as recorded by a video camera on the roof of the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco, California.

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Video Credit & Copyright: Ken Murphy (MurphLab); Music Ariel (Moby)

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