Ice Albedo - Global View
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- Visualizations by:
- Susan Twardy
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Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
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Animators
- Susan Twardy (HTSI) [Lead]
- Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Writers
- Michael Starobin (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Sarah DeWitt (NASA/GSFC)
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Scientists
- Claire Parkinson (NASA/GSFC)
- Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC)
- Waleed Abdalati (University of Colorado Boulder/CIRES)
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Datasets used in this visualization
Terra and Aqua Blue Marble Land Cover (Collected with the MODIS sensor)
Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
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