HoloGlobe: Earth at Night
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This is one of a series of animations that were produced to be part of the narrated video shown in the HoloGlobe exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and the Earth Today exhibit at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.
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A rotating globe showing the visible light sources on the Earths surface as measured by the DMSP satellites during the 1980s. White dots represent city lights, red dots represent forest fires, and yellow dots represent oil well fires.
Duration: 24.0 seconds
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The visible light sources on the Earths surface as measured by the DMSP satellites during the 1980s. White dots represent city lights, red dots represent forest fires, and yellow dots represent oil well fires.
Available formats:
1024 x 512
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320 x 160
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| Animation Number: | 1320 |
| Animator: | Jim Strong (Lead) |
| Studio: | SVS |
| Completed: | 1997-04-30 |
| Scientists: | Tom Watters (Smithsonian/Air and Space) |
| | Woodruff Sullivan (University of Washington) |
| Instrument: | DMSP/OLS |
| Data Collected: | 1972-1989 |
| Series: | HoloGlobe and Earth Today |
| Video: | SVS1996-0016 * |
| Goddard TV Tape: | G2097-045 |
Keywords:
DLESE
>> Human geography
SVS
>> Urban
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More Information on this topic available at:
http://www.mnh.si.edu/museum/VirtualTour/Tour/First/Hologlobe/
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Please give credit for this visualization to
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio |
*Please note: the SVS does not fulfill requests for copies of the tapes in our library. On some of our animation pages, there is a direct link to a video distribution service from which tapes, handled by the Public Affairs Office (PAO)/Goddard TV, including some of our animations may be ordered. General information on this service can be found here. |
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