In a stunning movie released by NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS), Earth is seen in a way you’ve probably never seen before.

The film shows a time-lapse model of a Category 4 typhoon that formed off the coast of China in 2005. The seven days are repeated several times in the graphic.

The volume clouds in the simulation were produced with the help of NASA’s Goddard Earth Observing System Model, Version 5 (GEOS-5). Using a supercomputer, this simulation, called the 7km GEOS-5 Nature Run (7km-G5NR), was run. This quick visualization used approximately one terabyte of brick map data and produced petabytes of output.

The SVS website states that the purpose of videos like the one above is to give the general public a better understanding of our planet and our place within it, as well as an overview of NASA’s mission: “To foster a better understanding of Earth and space science research activities at Goddard Space Flight Center and among the NASA research community, SVS collaborates closely with scientists in the creation of visualizations, animations, and images.”