Earth Planets and Moons Universe ID: 737

Images of Earth and Space: SC99 Edition

Visualizations by Stuart A. Snodgrass Released on October 15, 1999

From our home planet to distant neutron stars, this narrated video tape presents recent scientific visualizations of observation and simulation data. We begin with a dramatic journey over SC99 host city Portland and its surroundings. Later explorations accompany the X-33 aerospace plane on its first test flight, witness Mississippi River flooding, and follow global life over 22 months. New views of Mars reveal a basin that could swallow Mount Everest, while a simulation tests how rovers would navigate the red planet's terrain. We conclude with the first-ever supercomputer model producing a black hole from two merging neutron stars.

Visualization Credits

Stuart A. Snodgrass (GST): Lead Animator
Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Animator
Randall Jones (GST): Animator
Joseph Jacob (NASA): Animator
Peggy Li (NASA): Animator
Marc Pomerantz (NASA): Animator
Lucian Plesea (NASA/JPL CalTech): Animator
David Curkendall (NASA/JPL CalTech): Animator
Terry Cole (NASA): Animator
Tony Jacob (NASA): Animator
Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Animator
James Collier (NASA): Animator
Craig Miller (NASA/JPL CalTech): Animator
Richard Chen (NASA): Animator
Herb Siegel (NASA/JPL CalTech): Animator
Werner Benger (NASA): Animator
Grey Valenti: Narrator
David E. Smith (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Mark Miller (Washington University): Scientist
Jarrett Cohen (GST): Writer

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio