Earth  ID: 3814

Earth Observing Fleet Still Image for Stereoscopic Viewfinder

Visualizations by Greg Shirah Released on January 28, 2011
NASA's Earth Observing fleet of vehicles constitutes a major milestone in the history of Earth science, facilitating the kinds of wide scale and synergistic research endeavors that until the last decades have been impossible to even consider. Many of the techniques being employed around Earth are a direct offshoot of technological and scientific techniques developed on missions to other worlds. NASA's continued commitment to primary research about our home remains a top priority not only to the agency, but to the nation, and the world as a whole. This visualization shows the spacecraft in NASA's Earth Observing fleet. The relative altitudes, speeds, sun position, and clouds are correct for 05 February 2010 at about 20:00 GMT.

This stereoscopic artistic rendition was created from previous animations and is intended for viewing through a special NASA Earth Science Viewfinder available through NASA Headquarters. An anaglyph version is included in addition to a printable viewfinder version. Individual left eye and right eye views are also included.

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Side-by-side stero pair of composited orbital fleet
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Anaglyph (red/cyan) version of the steroscopic fleet
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Left eye composite of orbital fleet still
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Right eye composite of orbital fleet still
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Left eye forground layer of ortibal fleet still
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Right eye foreground layer of orbital fleet still
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Background star field layer of orbital fleet still. Only a single image is needed since the stars at an effectively infite distance)

Visualization Credits

Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Lawrence Friedl (NASA/HQ): Producer
Maria D. Nowak (NASA/GSFC): Producer
Karen Yuen (NASA/JPL CalTech): Producer
Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Project Support
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Mission:
Terra

Data Used:
CelesTrak Spacecraft Orbit Ephemeris
Ephemeris
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GEOS-5 Atmospheric Model on the Cubed-Sphere also referred to as: GEOS-5 Cubed-Sphere
Model - NASA GMAO
The model is the GEOS-5 atmospheric model on the cubed-sphere, run at 14-km global resolution for 30-days. GEOS-5 is described here http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/systems/geos5/ and the cubed-sphere work is described here http://sivo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cubedsphere_overview.html.
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Terra and Aqua/MODIS/Blue Marble: Next Generation also referred to as: BMNG
Credit:
The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
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Hipparcos/Telescope/Tycho 2 Catalogue also referred to as: Tycho Catalogue
Database
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This item is part of this series:
3D Viewfinder

Keywords:
SVS >> Satellite
SVS >> Orbit
SVS >> Stereo Display
NASA Science >> Earth