Visualizations by
Tom Bridgman
Released on July 23, 2008
This movie is an auroral substorm event observed by the visible light camera aboard the Polar spacecraft.
Because the visible light camera records in a single broad range of wavelengths, we do not have color imagery of the event. For this movie we will color the aurora green since that is the dominant color in most cases. The VIS camera is also low resolution so the fine aurora details visible from the ground are not apparent in this movie.
Visualization Credits
Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Animator Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Animator Rani Gran (NASA/GSFC): Producer Vassilis Angelopoulos (University of California at Berkeley): Scientist David G. Sibeck (NASA/GSFC): Scientist Harald Frey (University of California at Berkeley): Scientist Nicola Fox (Johns Hopkins University/APL): Scientist
Please give credit for this item to: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation:
Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0