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Dept of Ideas: Transforming Weather Satellite Data Into a Portrait of Earth

By David Schonauer   Wednesday June 24, 2026

Digital artist and filmmaker Seán Doran created his hypnotic film Water World using 2,500 infrared images captured by the GOES-16 weather satellite in late September 2024. Released through his independent project Cosma, the film transforms scientific observations of water vapor drifting above the Western Hemisphere into a cinematic portrait …

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