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Animation Identification Numbers 4300 through 4399
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Animation showing accumulated rainfall from Cyclone Halong as it bears down on Japan.   4300   IMERG Accumulated Precipitation Rates from Cylone Halong
This animation shows the annual Arctic sea ice minimum with a graph overlay that depicts the area of the sea ice in millions of square kilometers.   4301   Annual Arctic Sea Ice Minimum 1979-2014 with Area Graph
Another oblique image ( M1182232465LE ) of the Taurus-Littrow valley taken by the LRO narrow-angle camera on March 29, 2015.   4302   Apollo 17 Landing Site
Visualization depicting Typhoon Maysak in the Southwest Pacific region as observed by the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Satellite on March 30th, 2015. GPM/GMI precipitation rates are displayed as the camera moves in on the storm. A slicing plane moves across the volume to display precipitation rates throughout the structure of the storm. Shades of green to red represent liquid precipitation extending down to the ground.   4303   GPM Examines Super Typhoon Maysak
This visualization shows rainfall-triggered landslides and precipitation from August and September of 2014 in Asia and the Himalayan Arc.   4304   Global Rainfall-Triggered Landslides and Global Precipitation from IMERG
Rainfall-triggered landslides over population data from January 2007 through March 2015 in Asia and the Himalayan Arc.   4305   Global Rainfall-Triggered Landslides from 2007 through 2015
This version of FROZEN simulates the experience of two separate viewers on opposite sides of the sphere. Sometimes the two viewers see the same thing, but most of the time they see different parts of the Earth. Complete transcript available.   4306   FROZEN: The Full Story
Figure 1b: This image shows how the reduced albedo of the snow from dust, black carbon and organic carbon (the   4307   Impact of Snow Darkening on Boreal Spring Climate
This narrated animation shown as a Daily at SIGGRAPH 2015 describes a method of automatically mapping of 87 gigapixels of data over Greenland. For complete transcript, click here .   4308   SIGGRAPH Daily 2015: How did we tile Greenland?
A 1080 HD Full-Disk movie of the flare event.   4309   Blast from the Past: A Flare from January 2012
A looping animation showing a complete cycle of average lunar phases.   4310   Moon Phases Loop
Three orbits of MESSENGER at different altitudes show small magnetic field signals from rocks magnetized early in Mercury's history. The signals are strongest at the lowest altitude.   4312   Measuring Mercury's Magnetism
Earth system science is composed of broad areas of study including: air, water, land, life, and solar.   4313   Earth System Science Cartoon Schematic
A view of the United States during the total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, showing the umbra (black oval), penumbra (concentric shaded ovals), and path of totality (red) through or very near several major cities.   4314   2017 Total Solar Eclipse in the U.S.
The lightning event occurred in the west South Dakota around 2:50 PM on July 19th, 2014. It lasted about 1.5 seconds.   4315   Lightning Over South Dakota
Visualization of rainfall over Texas as Tropical Storm Bill further drenched the state with rain on June 17, 2015 at 6:11:27Z. Shades of blue indicate frozen precipitation in the atmosphere and shades of green to red show liquid precipitation.   4316   Tropical Storm Bill Over Texas
This visualization provides a full 360-degree rotating tour of the disk, face-on to edge-on and back.   4317   Exoplanet Disks In Formation
Short version of the IRIS visualization with windowed SJI imagery.   4318   A Slice of Light: How IRIS Observes the Sun
Movie of plasma eruption (upper left limb).   4319   Solar Dynamics Observatory: April 21, 2015 Eruption on the Solar Limb
Sudd Wetlands Water Cycle   4320   Sudd Wetlands Water Cycle
The umbral and penumbral shadow cones travel across the surface of the Earth during the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse.   4321   2017 Eclipse Shadow Cones
A view of multiple CMEs which erupted from the Sun in the latter half of June 2015. Their trajectories, and potential impacts on Earth and space assets, are propagated with the Enlil model.   4322   The Multiple CMEs of June, 2015
The Sun in the AIA 171 angstrom filter. Note the coronal loop structures on the lower right limb.   4323   Summer Sun from SDO: Eruption and Coronal Loops on the Solar Limb
The Moon orbits the Earth in the months prior to the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse. Viewed from above, the Moon's shadow appears to cross the Earth every month, but a side view reveals the five-degree tilt of the Moon's orbit. Its shadow only hits the Earth when the line of nodes, the fulcrum of its orbital tilt, is pointed toward the Sun.   4324   2017 Eclipse and the Moon's Orbit
Visualization of the mass change over Greenland from January 2004 through June 2014. The surface of Greenland shows the change in equivalent water height while the graph overlay shows the total accumulated change in gigatons.   4325   NASA GSFC MASCON Solution over Greenland from Jan 2004 - Jun 2014
Accumulated precipitation deficit map for California drought between 2012 and 2014 based on TRMM data.   4326   TRMM and MERRA Precipitation Anomalies in California (TRMM part)
Accumulated precipitation deficit map for California drought between 2012 and 2014 based on MERRA data.   4327   TRMM and MERRA Precipitation Anomalies in California (MERRA part)
An animation up the Greenland's Sermilik Fjord to the calving front of the Helheim Glacier, showing the glacier front's change between 2000 to 2013   4328   Greenland's Glaciers as seen by RadarSat
CALIPSO observes Saharan dust crossing the Atlantic Ocean Visualizer: Kel Elkins Summary: For the first time, a NASA satellite has quantified in three dimensions how much dust makes the trans-Atlantic journey from the Sahara Desert the Amazon rainforest. Among this dust is phosphorus, an essential nutrient that acts like a fertilizer, which the Amazon depends on in order to flourish. The new dust transport estimates were derived from data collected by a lidar instrument on NASA's Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation, or CALIPSO, satellite from 2007 though 2013. For complete transcript, click here . For more details and to download other media formats, click here .   4329   SIGGRAPH 2015: Dailies
Aquarius Sea Surface Temperature Flat Map 2011 - 2015   4332   Aquarius Sea Surface Temperature 2011 - 2015
This movie illustrates two orbits of the four MMS spacecraft.   4333   MMS Spacecraft Transition to Tetrahedral Flying Formation
The same animation as above shown with MODIS true-color continents.   4334   Atmospheric River Reaching California
CALIPSO observes Saharan dust crossing the Atlantic Ocean Visualizer and presenter: Kel Elkins Summary: For the first time, a NASA satellite has quantified in three dimensions how much dust makes the trans-Atlantic journey from the Sahara Desert the Amazon rainforest. Among this dust is phosphorus, an essential nutrient that acts like a fertilizer, which the Amazon depends on in order to flourish. In this talk, Kel Elkins describes how NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) creates animated visualizations using data from NASA missions. Kel describes step-by-step how data from NASA’s CALIPSO satellite was used to create a visualization depicting dust from Africa traveling through the atmosphere towards South America. For PowerPoint slide presentation, click the 'Download' button above. For more details and to download other media formats, click here .   4335   SIGGRAPH 2015: Dailies Talk
Wind and Ocean Circulation for the Dynamic Earth Dome Show Visualizer: Greg Shirah and Horace Mitchell Wind and Ocean Circulation camera slowly pushes in towards the Earth revealing global wind patterns. The wind patterns are from the MERRA computational model of the atomsphere. As the camera continues to push in, the winds fade away, revealing ocean currents which are driven, in part, by the winds. The ocean currents are from the ECCO-2 computational model of the oceans and ice. Only the higher speed ocean currents are shown. The camera moves around the Western Atlantic highlighting the Gulf stream from above and below. The camera finally emerges from beneath sea level and moves over to the Gulf of Mexico to examine the Loop Current. This shot is designed to seamlessly match to the end of the Earth/CME shot (animation id #3551.). Topographic features are exaggerated 20 times above water and 40 times below water. The exaggeration is primarily to allow the viewer to distinguish the depths of the flow fields. For more details and to download other media formats, click here .   4336   SIGGRAPH 2015: VR Village
The accumulated precipitation product visualized here begins on January 1, 2015 and runs through July 16, 2015. This visualization shows the heavy rainfall throughout Northern Texas and across Oklahoma as well as the drought in Southern California.   4337   Rainfall Accumulation Across the United States (1/1/2015 - 7/16/2015)
Print resolution map of the world depicting GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage Anomaly as of April 2015 relative to a 2002-2015 mean.   4338   Global Terrestrial Water Storage Anomaly
Example animation showing significant ground water storage loss around Brazil's most populated areas. This animation starts with a global view of the Americas, then zooms into the country of Brazil. The location of major reservoirs are revealed, followed by population data. Lastly, GRACE water storage anomaly data for the months of April, May, June is shown beginning in 2002 and going up to 2014. Finally, the region around São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro is highlighted to show the significant water storage loss in this highly populated region.   4339   GRACE Detects Brazil Drought
Universal Time (UT). The Moon moves right to left, passing through the penumbra and umbra, leaving in its wake an eclipse diagram with the times at various stages of the eclipse.   4340   September 27, 2015 Total Lunar Eclipse: Shadow View
With the lunar horizon in the foreground, the Earth passes in front of the Sun, revealing the red ring of sunrises and sunsets along the limb of the Earth. The Earth and Sun are in Virgo for observers on the Moon. The bright star above them is beta Virginis.   4341   September 27, 2015 Total Lunar Eclipse: View from the Moon
This visualization presents a small sample of the 9 years of comets seen by SOHO from the perspective a an observer at a fixed point above the ecliptic plane with the Sun at the center.   4342   Sixteen Comets Touring the Inner Solar System
This visualization presents 14 years of comets seen by SOHO from the perspective of an observer orbiting a fixed point above the ecliptic plane with the Sun at the center.   4343   Lots of Comets - Long trail version
This visualization presents 14 years of comets seen by SOHO from the perspective of an observer at a fixed point above the ecliptic plane with the Sun at the center.   4344   Lots of Comets - Short trail version
Spinning globe showing TOPEX/JASON 22-year sea level data. Earth spins once before camera zooms into West Atlantic, East Pacific, and West Pacific regions. With colorbar   4345   22-year Sea Level Rise - TOPEX/JASON
Visualization depicting NASA's MAVEN satellite in an elliptical orbit around Mars. The horizon is scanned to determine atmospheric makeup. Blue sections of the atmosphere represent regions that have been scanned, and total coverage is achieved after roughly six orbits.   4346   MAVEN Stellar Occultation Atmospheric Coverage
Visualization of the mass change over the Antarctic Ice Sheet from January 2004 through June 2014. The color on the surface of the ice sheet shows the change in equivalent water height while the graph overlay shows the total accumulated change in gigatons.   4347   NASA GSFC MASCON Solution over Antarctica from Jan 2004 - Jun 2014
OIB track layers from 1997 to 2015 arranged next to each other   4348   Operation IceBridge Tracks over the Helheim Glacier in Greenland
The geometry of the Moon's orbit in motion, from the end of August until the supermoon eclipse on September 27-28, 2015. The inner blue circle shows perigee distance, the outer blue circle shows apogee distance, and the off-center, light gray circle shows the Moon's orbit. Frame sequences with alpha channel are available for the separate elements of the animation.   4349   Supermoon Eclipse 2015
Diatom Concentration, Equirectangular Projection   4350   Phytoplankton Decline
Visualization depicting the International Space Station (ISS) flying over an ER-2 aircraft. Data from the CATS instrument (aboard the ISS) is compared to data collected from the CPL instrument (aboard the ER-2 aircraft). After the overflight occurs, the camera zooms in to a region of interest and the two datasets are shown side-by-side. Similar features can be seen in both datasets.   4351   CATS/CPL Underflight
Rectangular flat map projection shows Sea Surface Salinity measurements taken by Aquarius in its whole life span (September 2011 - May 2015).   4353   Aquarius Sea Surface Salinity 2011-2015
Print resolution still of Tropical Storm Fred's precipitation amounts both on the ocean surface and in the 3D structure of the storm. Precipitation colors ranging from green to red are liquid precipitation amounts. Precipitation colors in shades of blue are frozen precipitation.   4354   Tropical Storm Fred
In this animation, the Earth rotates slowly as the Arctic sea ice advances over time from February 25, 2015 to September 11, 2015, when the sea ice reached its annual minimum extent.   4355   AMSR2 2015 Minimum Arctic Sea Ice Extent
The appearance of the Moon during the lunar eclipse at 10 seconds per frame. Displays LRO's orbit, its view of the Sun, and meters for the amount of sunlight LRO is receiving and the charge of its battery.   4356   LRO and the September 27-28, 2015 Lunar Eclipse: Telescopic View
Aquarius Sea Surface Density 2011 - 2015 Flat Map   4357   Aquarius Sea Surface Density
Global visualization of Hurricane Kilo as it formed in the Eastern Pacific and moved across the international dateline finally diminishing in the Western Pacific near Japan. As Kilo progresses, GPM captures swathes of surface precipitation data throughout the storm's life cycle.   4358   Tracking Kilo from Hurricane to Typhoon
Global view of Hurricane Kilo crossing the Pacific as it leaves an accumulated precipitation trail behind it.   4359   Hurricane Kilo's Precipitation Trail
Fig. 3. Animation of the Ice Albedo Feedback For more information, click here . Credit: NASA/GSFC Conceptual Image Lab   4361   Does What Happens in the Arctic Stay in the Arctic?
The dust migration is shown visualizing dust distribution on vertical walls that slice through the atmosphere. For more information, click here .   4362   Dust in the Wind
Three of the 12 images used in the GRACE lenticular card, which show the drying out of California’s aquifers based on the decreased amount of gravity they exert.   4363   Notes from the Underground
Example flood image.   4364   Educator Webinar: Mapping Earth's Water Cycle with NASA Scientists (Recorded)
Composite aircraft video and scientific measurement data from a low-altitude cloud sampling leg. Top-right: Forward camera aboard the C-130, Bottom-right: Down-facing camera aboard the C-130, Left: Data traces of altitude and cloud properties including 1) the cloud droplet concentration with a Cloud Droplet Probe (CDP), 2) liquid and total water content (LWC, TWC) measured with a WCM-2000 probe, and the cloud droplet size distribution measured by the CDP. Alternatively, view this video on YouTube.   4365   Airborne in the Arctic
The stunning Landsat-8 scene of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed! (Taylor, 2015)   4366   The Chesapeake Bay in 661 Million Pixels
Animation of Tropical Storm Joaquin on September 29, 2015 right before it intensified into a hurricane. The camera moves in on the storm, and the visualization concludes with a 360 degree view around the storm.   4367   Joaquin
Above is an image of the Antarctic sea ice on October 6, 2015, the day on which it reached its annual maximum extent. The date is also displayed.   4368   Maximum Antarctic Sea Ice 2015
An animation depicting the build-up of precipitation data on a flat map from the Global Precipitation Measurement constellation of satellites, resulting in the IMERG global precipitation data set.   4369   Painting the World with Water (New Colorbar)
Movie without music and titles. Available for download in up to 4k resolution .   4370   Solar Wind Strips the Martian Atmosphere
Visualization of Tropical Storm Joaquin on September 29, 2015, just before the storm intensified into a hurricane. Visualization depicts a full 360 degree view of the storm.   4371   Joaquin 360
This movie shows IMERG liquid and frozen precipitation for the period June, 2015, through September, 2015.   4372   IMERG Global Precipitation Rates (New Colorbar)
The final visualization that assimilates ocean buoy datasets and ECCO-2 ocean current model. (Credit: Greg Shirah and Horace Mitchell, NASA SVS)   4375   Garbage Patch Visualization Experiment
An animation of mass change over the Antarctic Ice Sheet from GRACE derived gravity observations.   4376   Antarctic Mass Change from GRACE derived Gravity Observations: Jan 2004 - Jun 2014
Hurricane Sandy over the Atlantic Ocean Geostationary satellites captured the infrared (IR) radiation imagery on October 28, 2012 (18:00 UTC). After adding color enhancements, one can see towering clouds as red colors and cloud-free areas as gray colors. Also displayed are white contour curves of mean sea-level pressure, with an interval of 1.5 hPa, from NOAA’s Global Forecast System (GFS) weather model. All data is visualized in Google Earth™. Contrast the labeled areas of low pressure (L) and high pressure (H). What differences do you see?   4377   A 3-D Look at Weather, Clouds, and Aerosols
On December 5, 2014 the GPM mission's Core Observatory flew over Typhoon Hagupit as it headed towards the Philippines. The GPM Microwave Imager sees through the tops of clouds to observe how much and where precipitation occurs, and the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar observes precise details of precipitation in 3-dimensions. Precipitation rates are represented by colors in the visualization. For more information on this visualization, click here .   4378   Visualizations: A NASA Eye View of Our Earth
Two images from Eyes on the Earth: Gravity field is on the left, sea level is on the right. The user can rotate the planet to any desired location, zoom in and out, see NASA's entire fleet of Earth-observing satellites, set the speed with which time passes and select many different kinds of displays.   4379   Making Video Games for NASA
Print resolution still of the Nebraska water use study area.   4381   Nebraska Water Usage
Surface winds from MERRA over IMERG precipitation rates for October, 2014.   4382   IMERG Precipitation and MERRA Winds
This is one of the first maps that has been prepared using data from NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission. The SMAP mission produces high-resolution maps of global soil moisture and detects whether soils are frozen or thawed. For more information on this map, click here .   4385   Zooming In: Remote Sensing the Earth
Google Maps rendering of CoCoRaHS data in upstate New York in November 2014.   4386   Beyond Graphs: You, Too, Can Be A Data Visualizer!
The MODIS instrument on the Aqua satellite has been monitoring the color of the ocean's reflected light since 2002 to determine where plant life is photosynthesizing. A normal year (left) is compared to the El Niño developing during September, 2015 (right). (Source: http://climatebits.org )   4387   El Niño: Disrupting the Marine Food Web
Forecast stratospheric ozone depletion due to hydroflourocarbin emissions from 2000 to 2050.   4389   Ozone Depletion by Hydrofluorocarbons
The Moon moves right to left in its orbit around the Earth. The shadow it casts hits the Earth during the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse.   4390   2017 Eclipse: Earth, Moon and Sun
A visualization of the slow changes of the solar magnetic field over the course of four years.   4391   The Dynamic Solar Magnetic Field
Cropped view of the Enlil model from early 2015 to just after the New Horizons flyby of Pluto. This version shows the STEREO spacecraft which were out of communication during much of this time frame.   4392   Space Weather to the Edge of the Solar System
Simulation of the solar wind at Mars compared with MAVEN observations, showing the predicted bow shock. Available for download in up to 4k resolution .   4393   Solar Wind and Mars Bow Shock
The vertical profile of a flight from New York to London shows effective radiation dose (microSievert/hr) exposure increases with flight altitude, as indicated by a color change between 11km and 15km.   4394   Q&A with RaD-X Project Scientist, Erica Alston
A still image from the Except from   4395   Q&A with NASA Visualizer, Lori Perkins
Water evaporates from the ocean, then condenses into clouds and heavy rainfall that winds carry across the region.   4397   Monsoons: Wet, Dry, Repeat...
This animation shows the ocean surface CO 2 flux between 1/1/2009 and 12/31/2010. Blue colors indicate uptake and orange-red colors indicate outgassing of ocean carbon. The pathlines indicate surface wind stress.   4398   Ocean Surface CO2 Flux with Wind Stress
Visualization showing forest change in various locations from 1986 to 2010   4399   A Quarter Century US Forest Disturbance History from Landsat - the NAFD-NEX Products
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