Earth Science Decadal Survey Missions
This animated graphic outlines the 15 NASA Earth science missions recommended by the National Research Council in its decadal survey report, published in 2007. These future missions will form the basis of a systematic space-based study of the Earth. For more information about the survey and the missions, see this NASA Science article, this decadal survey Web site, and the NRC's report.
As each decadal survey satellite's orbital path is highlighted in color, the text briefly summarizes the mission's scientific goals.
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This animation layer contains just the labeled orbital paths of the decadal survey mission satellites, without the explanatory text.
Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animators
- Ernie Wright (UMBC)
- Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Wednesday, February 2, 2011.
This page was last updated on Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 12:01 AM EST.
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Datasets used in this visualization
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BMNG (Blue Marble: Next Generation) [Terra and Aqua: MODIS]
ID: 508Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
This dataset can be found at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
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GEOS-5 Cubed-Sphere (GEOS-5 Atmospheric Model on the Cubed-Sphere)
ID: 663The model is the GEOS-5 atmospheric model on the cubed-sphere, run at 14-km global resolution for 30-days. GEOS-5 is described here http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/systems/geos5/ and the cubed-sphere work is described here http://sivo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cubedsphere_overview.html.
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