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Animation Identification Numbers 4500 through 4599
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STEREO-B (Left Eye) frames   4500   STEREO in stereo: Spring 2007 at 195 Angstroms
STEREO-B (Left Eye) movie   4501   STEREO in stereo: Spring 2007 at 284 Angstroms
STEREO-B (Left Eye) frames   4502   STEREO in stereo: Spring 2007 at 304 Angstroms
Closeup view of Earth from the perspective of the GOLD instrument.   4503   Exploring the Ionosphere: The View from GOLD
A view of the singly-ionizing oxygen atom on the dayside of Earth. This represents the variation of the enhancments due to variation in the geomagnetic field. In this version, the oxygen ion ionosphere model is sampled at 15 minute cadence which creates some 'jumping' in the ionosphere enhancements.   4504   Exploring the Ionosphere: The Dayside Ionosphere
After simulating the distant view of a new impact, the camera zooms up to the surface to show actual before/after images of a new 12-meter crater taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter narrow-angle camera. (The impact that formed this crater wasn't seen from Earth, but a different one was .)   4505   Gardening Rates on the Moon
An animation of the flows along the rivers of central California. This animation does not show actual flow rates of the rivers. All rivers are shown with identical rates. The river colors and widths correspond to the relative lengths of river segments. This version shows all of California with an east-up orientation.   4506   The Rivers of Central California
This animation starts with an overview of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. As the camera slowly pushes in, Hurricane Matthew begins to form. By the morning of October 2nd, 2016 Matthew is a Category 4 Hurricane immediately south of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Time then slows down to see GPM's GPROF swath reveal ground precipitation from the hurricane. Now, with the camera closer in the view rotates to reveal a curtain of 3-dimensional radar data from GPM's DPR instrument. DPR shows us the 3-D structure of the hurricane's precipitation rates. Areas in blue and purple are frozen precipitation, whereas areas in greens and reds are liquid precipitation.   4507   GPM Captures Hurricane Matthew Before Haiti Landfall
This animation starts with an overview of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. As the camera slowly pushes in, Hurricane Matthew begins to form. By the morning of October 2nd, 2016 Matthew is a Category 4 Hurricane immediately south of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Time then slows down to see GPM's GPROF swath reveal ground precipitation from the hurricane. Now, with the camera closer in the view rotates to reveal a curtain of 3-dimensional radar data from GPM's DPR instrument. DPR shows the 3-D structure of the hurricane's precipitation rates. Areas in blue and purple are frozen precipitation, whereas areas in greens and reds are liquid precipitation. The data for October 2nd then fades away and the hurricane advances to October 3rd, stopping over Haiti. A new satellite pass of GPM GPROF ground precipitation is revealed, followed by a new curtain of 3-D DPR data.   4508   GPM Captures Hurricane Matthew Over Haiti
This visualization shows the age of the sea ice between 1984 and 2016. Younger sea ice, or first-year ice, is shown in a dark shade of blue while the ice that is four years old or older is shown as white. A bar graph displayed in the lower right corner quantifies the percent of total sea ice in each age category.   4509   Weekly Animation of Arctic Sea Ice Age with Graph of Ice Age by Percent of Total: 1984 - 2016
This visualization shows the age of the Arctic sea ice between 1984 and 2016. Younger sea ice, or first-year ice, is shown in a dark shade of blue while the ice that is four years old or older is shown as white. A bar graph displayed in the lower right corner quantifies the area in square kilometers covered by each age category of perennial sea ice.   4510   Weekly Animation of Arctic Sea Ice Age with Graph of Ice Age By Area: 1984 - 2016
This data visualization resumes where the visualization   4511   GPM Monitors Hurricane Matthew Nearing Florida
This data visualization resumes where the visualization   4512   GPM Monitors Hurricane Matthew Flooding the Carolinas
This visualization of particle acceleration across a shock is a simplied representation of shock drift acceleration (SDA) showing the motion of electrons (yellow) and protons (blue). It is presented with the same color table designations as other critters in our Plasma Zoo.   4513   Shock Drift Acceleration (SDA)
Carbon Dioxide from the GEOS-5 model   4514   Carbon Dioxide from GMAO using Assimilated OCO-2 Data
This animation closely follows the Moon's umbra shadow as it passes over the United States during the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse. Through the use of a number of NASA datasets, notably the global elevation maps from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the shape and location of the shadow is depicted with unprecedented accuracy.   4515   2017 Path of Totality
This animation closely follows the Moon's umbra shadow as it passes over the United States during the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse. Through the use of a number of NASA datasets, notably the global elevation maps from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the shape and location of the shadow is depicted with unprecedented accuracy.   4516   2017 Path of Totality: Oblique View
This animation shows the shape of the Moon's umbral shadow during the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse, calculated at three different levels of detail. The dark gray is the closest to the true shape.   4517   Umbra Shapes
A map of the United States showing the path of totality for the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse.   4518   2017 Total Solar Eclipse Map and Shapefiles
This visualization starts by showing carbon dioxide values (colored squares) being measured by the OCO-2 sensor. Soon the total carbon dioxide from the GEOS global atmosphere simulation is shown under the OCO-2 data. Every six hours, the OCO-2 measurements are used to adjust the GEOS simulation values to agree with observed values at those locations, a process called data assimilation. In order to see this process, look for locations where OCO-2 values are shortly followed by local changes in the background data. Carbon dioxide is shown in parts per million by volume (ppmv).   4519   Assimilation of OCO-2 Carbon Dioxide into the GEOS Simulation
This visualization starts with a global view of the Western hemisphere. The viewer then moves in over the arctic on December 27, 2015. Winds and air temperature fade in as time moves forward. A low pressure system then moves in pushing warm air ahead of it. The warm air moves over the Arctic sea ice, contributing to dramatic melting of the sea ice concentration in this region.   4520   Early 2016 Winter Storm Melts Arctic Sea Ice
An image of the Arctic sea ice on September 6, 2016 with the 30-year average minimum extent indicated by a yellow line.   4521   Image of the Arctic Sea ice - September 10, 2016
This visualization shows the age of the sea ice between 1984 and 2016. Younger sea ice, or first-year ice, is shown in a dark shade of blue while the ice that is four years old or older is shown as white. Two bar graphs, described below, are shown in the lower left and right corners.   4522   Weekly Animation of Arctic Sea Ice Age with Two Graphs: 1984 - 2016
Irrigation and groundwater depletion are shown side-by-side in the western United States.   4523   Irrigation and Groundwater Depletion
GLOBE, MODIS, CALIPSO, CloudSat full animation   4524   Correlation Between GLOBE Citizen Science and NASA Satellite Observations
A sequence of four images captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter narrow-angle camera during the May 20-21, 2012 annular solar eclipse. The Moon's shadow is seen passing over Japan and the Aleutian Islands.   4525   LRO Images the May 2012 Solar Eclipse
Basic Olde Tyme Heliophysics Map.   4526   Ye Olde Tyme Heliophysics Map
Visualization of ICON and GOLD orbiting Earth with image scanning.   4527   ICON and GOLD: Instrument Scanning Coverage
This visualization shows the seasonal ice velocity on the Heimdal Glacier in Greenland between October 2013 and October 2016. The color of the flow vectors represent the speed of the flow, with purple representing the slow moving ice and red showing the fast ice. The color scale is displayed in the lower left corner.   4528   Seasonal Speed Variation on Heimdal Glacier
This visualization shows the seasonal ice velocity on the Heimdal Glacier in Greenland between October 2013 and October 2016. The color of the flow vectors represent the speed of the flow, with purple representing the slow moving ice and red showing the faster moving ice. This visualization includes a pause highlighting when the velocity is at a seasonal low and again when it reaches a seasonal high. The color scale is displayed in the lower left corner.   4529   Seasonal Glacier Velocity on the Heimdal Glacier with a pause
The visualization of AIRS CO2 dataset.   4533   Atmospheric CO2 from AIRS 2002-2016
Taken June 21, 2016 by Commander Jeff Williams of NASA during Expedition 48 on the International Space Station. More info .   4534   The Moon from ISS
A visualization of the Arctic sea ice from January 1, 2013 through September 10, 2016, the date when the sea ice reached its annual minumum extent. The date is shown in the lower left corner.   4535   Arctic Sea Ice from January 1, 2013 to September 10, 2016
The phase and libration of the Moon for 2017, at hourly intervals. Includes supplemental graphics that display the Moon's orbit, subsolar and sub-Earth points, and the Moon's distance from Earth at true scale. Craters near the terminator are labeled.   4537   Moon Phase and Libration, 2017
The phase and libration of the Moon for 2017, at hourly intervals. Includes supplemental graphics that display the Moon's orbit, subsolar and sub-Earth points, and the Moon's distance from Earth at true scale. Craters near the terminator are labeled.   4538   Moon Phase and Libration, 2017 South Up
Oxygen ion enhancements at 350km altitude, ionospheric winds at altitudes of 100 km (white) and 350 km (violet) and the low-latitude geomagnetic field.   4539   Exploring Earth's Ionosphere: Limb view with approach
This visualization presents data on the concentration of the singly-ionized oxygen atom (rainbow color table, red is highest concentration), the low-latitude geomagnetic field (gold field lines) and the ionospheric winds at two altitude levels, 100km (white) and 350 km (violet).   4540   Exploring Earth's Ionosphere: Limb view
The animation of ocean magnetic fields observed by satellites.   4541   Ocean Tides and Magnetic Fields
The ISS passes over a plume of ash and sulfur dioxide (SO2) from the Calbuco Volcano eruption. The volcano plume can be seen in attenuated backscatter data collected by the CATS instrument, onboard the ISS.   4542   CATS studies volcanic plumes, wildfires, and hurricanes
This example visualization shows how all of the below data visualizations could be arranged on NASA's 3x3 hyperwall display.   4543   Monitoring Hurricane Matthew
This visualization shows 2015-2016 El Nino through changes in sea surface temperature and ocean currents. Blue regions represent colder temperatures and red regions represent warmer temperatures when compared with normal conditions. Yellow arrows illustrate eastward currents and white arrows are westward currents.   4544   2015-2016 El Niño: Daily Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly and Ocean Currents
This color-coded map displays a progression of changing global surface temperatures anomalies from 1880 through 2016. The final frame represents global temperature anomalies averaged from 2012 through 2016 in degrees Celsius.   4546   Five-Year Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2016
This visualization combines precipitation data from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals (IMERG) and water vapor data from Goddard Earth Observing System Model (GEOS) . Together, they allow scientists to study atmospheric rivers and the heavy precipitation they bring to California.   4547   Atmospheric River Slams California
This data visualization tracks Hurricane Matthew as it intensifies to a Category 5 Hurricane and stops as Matthew turns into a Category 4 Hurricane on October 2, 2016. GPM's GPROF and DPR data swathes are then revealed to show the internal precipitation structure of this strong storm. After most of the DPR data is pulled away, a static 3D wind field is then shown to reveal the flow of air within the structure. DPR is then draped back over the wind fields to show the two datasets together. The winds are derived from GEOS-5.   4548   Category 4 Hurricane Matthew on October 2, 2016
Visualization of the spacecraft orbit transition from apogee at the dayside magnetopause to the nightside magnetopause.   4549   MMS Phase 2b: Transitioning to Magnetosphere Science on the Darkside
The Blue Marble in slow rotation -- HD version.   4550   NPP Blue Marble
4K x 4K imagery from the SDO/HMI instrument.   4551   A Solar Cycle from Solar Dynamics Observatory
Oregon   4552   2017 Eclipse State Maps
Print resolution image of North East snow storm on December 17, 2016.   4553   North East Snow Storm on December 17, 2016
A map-like view of the Earth during the total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, showing the umbra (black oval), penumbra (concentric shaded ovals), and the path of totality (red). This equirectangular projection is suitable for spherical displays and for spherical mapping in 3D animation software.   4554   August 21, 2017 Total Solar Eclipse Path for Spherical Displays
This visualization combines precipitation data from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals (IMERG) and water vapor data from the Goddard Earth Observing System Model (GEOS). These datasets show the extreme rainfall that occurred in California during the first three weeks of February 2017 and the atmospheric rivers that transported the rain to the area.   4555   California Gets Slammed Again
This visualization opens with a full view of the radiation belt of trapped electrons circling Earth. We open a slice of the belts, to display a cross-section for clarity and move the camera to a more equatorial view. Earth rotation and solar motion have been turned off for this visualization to reduce distracting additional motions.   4557   Leaky Radiation Belts
NASA's Earth observing fleet as of March 2017   4558   NASA's Earth Observing Fleet: March 2017
Beginning with a view from above the inner solar system that shows Kepler's orbit, the camera flies to Kepler and then looks along the Kepler telescope's line of sight. Zooming into the Kepler field reveals Neptune and some of its moons.   4559   Kepler Stares at Neptune
Alfven waves represented by undulation in the magnetic field vector.   4560   Alfvén Waves - Basic
A closeup view of the particles from the movie above.   4561   Alfvén Waves - Kinetic
This movie begins at the 2016 Antarctic maximum on August 31, 2016 and shows daily sea ice concentration until the Antarctic minimum on March 3, 2017. The 2017 minimum had only 2.1 million square kilometers of sea ice extent below the previous lowest minimum extext in the satellite record that occurred in 1997.   4562   Minimum Antarctic Sea Ice 2017
This movie begins at Arctic Minimum on September 10, 2016 and shows daily sea ice concentration until the Arctic maximum on March 7, 2017. The 2017 Arctic maximum was 14.42 million square kilometers (5.57 million square miles). The average maximum (1981-2010) is 15.64 million square kilometers.   4564   Arctic Daily Sea Ice Concentration from Arctic Minimum 2016 to Arctic Maximum 2017
Narrated visualization showing seasonal drawdown in carbon dioxide   4565   Seasonal Changes in Carbon Dioxide
Flying down the Helheim Glacier in Greenland as ATM altimetry date is shown - first with data from 1998 then data from 2013 is added   4566   Operation Icebridge Studies Changes in Greenland's Helheim Glacier
Visualization depicting Jupiter opposition occurring on Apri 7 2017   4567   2017 Jupiter Opposition
This visualization shows an oblique view of the reconnection region. Magnetic field direction is represented by the cyan lines. The color trail represents an electron moving in the field. Color of the particle trail represents a dimensionless speed of the particle, with blue for slow and red for fast.   4568   Exploring Reconnection - Guide Field Off
This visualization shows an oblique view of the reconnection region. Magnetic field direction is represented by the cyan lines. The color trail represents an electron moving in the field. Color of the particle trail represents a dimensionless speed of the particle, with blue for slow and red for fast.   4569   Exploring Reconnection - Guide Field On
This visualization starts over the United States as the viewer watches a weather event form over the east coast. We then freeze on April 1, 2017 as GPM flies overhead collecting data over this weather system. Zooming down to the Northeast, GPM's DPR (3D volumetric precipitation data) is slowly cut away to reveal the inner precipitation structure of the snow storm. Looking closely, one can see a thin band of liquid precipitation that formed in the northern section of the storm eventually tapering into frozen precipitation in the far north. The visualization wraps with the camera pulling back to a bird's eye view of the snow storm.   4570   April Fool's Day Snow Storm
850 mb and 250 mb levels   4571   Global Surface- and Upper-Level Winds
A visualization of the annual minimum Arctic sea ice from 1979 to 2016 with a graph overlay. (slow playback)   4573   Annual Arctic Sea Ice Minimum 1979-2016 with Area Graph
A view of the south pole of the Moon showing where reflectance and temperature data indicate the possible presence of surface water ice. This is the source visualization, without titles or sound.   4574   Temperature, Reflectance Point to Frost near the Moon's Poles
This data visualization follows Hurricane Matthew throughout its destructive run in the Caribbean and Southeast U.S. coast. By utilizing different data sets from NOAA's GOES satellite, NASA/JAXA's GPM, MERRA-2 model runs, IMERG, Goddard's soil moisture product, and sea surface temperatures, scientists are able to put together a clearer picture of how this hurricane quickly intensified and eventually weakened.   4575   NASA Studies Hurricane Matthew
This is an image of the Antarctic sea ice on August 28, 2016, the date on which the sea ice reached its maximum annual extent. The opacity of the sea ice is determined by the AMSR2 sea ice concentration. The blueish white color of the sea ice is a false color derived from the AMSR2 89 GHz brightness temperature. Over the Antarctic continent, the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica data shown here has a resolution of 240 meters per pixel.   4577   Antarctic Sea Ice on August 28, 2016
This image shows the Arctic sea ice on September 10, 2016 when the ice reached its minimum extent. The opacity of the sea ice is derived from the sea ice concentration where it is greater than 15%. The blueish white color of the sea ice is derived the AMSR2 89 GHz brightness temperature. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) provides many water-related products derived from data acquired by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) instrument aboard the Global Change Observation Mission 1st-Water   4578   Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Image: September 10, 2016
A view of the Moon's shadow during the August 21, 2017 eclipse from both the night and day sides of the Earth.   4579   Flying Around The Eclipse Shadow
Representations of electromagnetic waves of different polarizations: Right circular polarization (upper/right); Linear polarization (middle); and Left circular polarization (lower/left). Yellow arrows are the electric field, green arrows are the magnetic field.   4580   Electromagnetic Waves and Polarization
Locations in Peru where malaria cases were reported in 2005   4581   Using Satellite and Ground-based Data to Develop Malaria Risk Maps
The atmosphere is made up of gases like oxygen, nitrogen, and water vapor, but it also contains tiny particles called aerosols. Aerosols come from both natural and human sources and include things like sea salt, dust, soot, and sulfates. Aerosols often contribute to air pollution and poor visibility. Once they are in the atmosphere, they can travel long distances, affecting air quality far from their source. Aerosols also absorb or reflect energy (light), influencing temperatures in the atmosphere and on the ground. Satellites measure aerosols by how much light can pass through them. A thick layer of aerosols will block the ground from view, while a thin layer allows enough light through to see the ground. The measurement is called aerosol optical thickness. The GEOS-5 model is built on satellite data and provides a forecast of aerosol optical thickness (among other things). This animation shows a daily updated 10-day forecast of aerosol optical thickness from GEOS-5. The date and timestamp are in the lower left corner. In general, brighter colors are thick aerosols, while dull darker colors are thin aerosols. Blue represents sea salt (sea salt extinction aerosol optical thickness, 550 nm). Winds blowing across the ocean kicks up ocean spray, which includes sea salt. In the animation, pale blue to white colors reflect stormy conditions. Individual large storms like tropical cyclones (hurricanes, typhoons) are visible as swirling circles of thick sea salt. Red represents dust (dust extinction aerosol optical thickness, 550 nm). The Saharan Desert of northern Africa is the largest source of dust, but dust can be seen across the globe. Saharan dust often interacts with tropical cyclones. Green represents the sum of aerosol optical thickness for organic carbon, black carbon, and sulfate. Organic and black carbon come from burning biomass or fossil fuels. Sources include fires, power plants, vehicles, and other combustion engines that run on fossil fuel. Sulfate particles come mostly from burning fossil fuels, but also from volcanoes.   4582   Aerosol Optical Thickness Updating Forecast
GPM scans Hurricane Irma on September 5th and again on September 7th as the storm approaches Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti as a category 5 hurricane.   4584   GPM Examines Hurricane Irma
GPM passed over both Hurricane Maria and Hurricane Jose on September 18th, 2017. As the camera moves in on the Maria, DPR's volumetric view of the storm is revealed. A slicing plane moves across the volume to display precipitation rates throughout the storm. Shades of green to red represent liquid precipitation extending down to the ground.   4585   Hurricane Jose lingers in the Atlantic as Hurricane Maria approaches Puerto Rico
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