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Great Zoom into Don Juan Pond, Antarctica (treatment #1)
Antarctica is the coldest and most remote continent on Earth. It is also home to one of the most Mars-like places that scientists can study without actually traveling to the fourth planet. In this sequence we plunge from space down to a remarkably detailed view of a unique part of the Dry Valleys. By studying this place researchers think they might gain insight into how life on Mars might either survive now or have developed in the past. It is called the Don Juan Pond, and it's one of the saltiest, coldest bodies of water on Earth.

The zoom passes through four different resolution data sets including data from Terra, Landsat, and IKONOS.


Video resolution zoom into Don Juan Pond, Antarctica    Video resolution zoom into Don Juan Pond, Antarctica
Duration: 43.0 seconds
Available formats:
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  640x480 (30 fps) MPEG-1   22 MB
  720x480 (29.97 fps) MPEG-2   37 MB
  320x240 (30 fps) MPEG-1   5 MB
  80x40         PNG           3 KB
  320x240     JPEG         5 KB
  320x240 (30 fps) X-FLV       1 MB
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Animation Number:2873
Completed:2003-12-18
Animators:Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC) (Lead)
 Marte Newcombe (GST)
 Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC)
 Cindy Starr (GST)
 Alex Kekesi (GST)
Scientist:James Garvin (NASA/HQ)
Writer:Michael Starobin (HTSI)
Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets:IKONOS (2003/01/31)
 Landsat-7/ETM+ (2001/12/28)
 Terra/MODIS (2001/10/24)
 Terra and Aqua/MODIS/Blue Marble: Next Generation
Data Collected:Terra/MODIS: 2001/10/24, Landsat: 2001/12/28, IKONOS:2003/01/31
Series:Great Zooms
 Earth-Mars Comparisons
Keywords:
SVS >> Mars
SVS >> Zoom
SVS >> Pond
 
 
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio, Landsat 7 Project Science Office; MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov)


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