All Fireballs and Meteorites Ever Recorded, Mapped
NASA / CNSA

All Fireballs and Meteorites Ever Recorded, Mapped

Year

2024

Category

Data Visualisation

Medium

Interactive Globe

Every recorded meteorite and fireball landing — of all time — plotted on a single interactive globe, alongside the current orbital positions of the ISS and Tiangong space stations. Drawing on NASA's open datasets, the map transforms the sky's violent history into a navigable archive, inviting wonder at the sheer frequency of extraterrestrial encounters with Earth.

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