Great Zoom into Beltsville, MD: Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at the Goddard Space Flight Center present you with a collection of American cities in a way you have never seen them before. Starting with our camera high above the Earth, we rush in towards the surface at what would be an impossible speed for any known vehicle. Passing though layers of atmosphere, the colors of our destinations shimmer with their own unique characteristics, and suddenly we find ourselves floating in virtual space just above the ground.
A seamless zoom from space to the ground, using data from Terra-MODIS, Landsat-ETM+, and IKONOS, and ending at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Beltville, Maryland
Video slate image reads "Great Zoom in to Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (EOS Land Validation Core Site)".
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animators
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
- Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC)
- Marte Newcombe (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Michael Mangos (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- John McGinnis (NASA)
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Scientist
- Jeffrey Morisette (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Saturday, December 1, 2001.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.
Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Datasets used in this visualization
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[IKONOS]
ID: 39 -
[Landsat-7: ETM+]
ID: 55This dataset can be found at: http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/wrs.html
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[Terra: MODIS]
ID: 116
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