Looking Down at the Earth's Ocean Floor from Space
Using a combination of different data sets, scientists are able to see what the Earth would look like if it had no oceans.
Atlantic Ocean floor
North America
Pacific Ocean floor
Video slate image reads, "Looking Down at the Earth's Ocean Floor from Space."
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animators
- Stuart A. Snodgrass (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Marte Newcombe (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Scientists
- Dorothy Hall (NASA/GSFC)
- Gene Feldman (NASA/GSFC)
- Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC)
- Claire Parkinson (NASA/GSFC)
- Chris Justice (University of Maryland)
Release date
This page was originally published on Tuesday, August 20, 2002.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Datasets used in this visualization
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Bathymetry [Terra: MODIS]
ID: 569
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