Earth ID: 3818

Earth Science Decadal Survey Missions

Visualizations by Ernie Wright Released on February 2, 2011

This animated graphic outlines the 15 NASA Earth science missions recommended by the National Research Council in its decadal survey report, published in 2007. These future missions will form the basis of a systematic space-based study of the Earth. For more information about the survey and the missions, see this NASA Science article, this decadal survey Web site, and the NRC's report.

Visualization Credits

Ernie Wright (UMBC): Lead Animator
Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Animator
Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Animator

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Missions:
ACE
Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat)
Terra

Data Used:

Terra and Aqua/MODIS/Blue Marble: Next Generation also referred to as: BMNG

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/

Credit:
The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).

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GEOS-5 Atmospheric Model on the Cubed-Sphere also referred to as: GEOS-5 Cubed-Sphere

Model - NASA GMAO - 2 - 22 Feb 2010

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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