Great Zoom into Salt Lake City, UT: Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium (with Spin and Night Lights)

  • Released Friday, February 8, 2002
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Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at the Goddard Space Flight Center present you with a collection of American cities in a way you have never seen them before. Starting with our camera high above the Earth, we rush in towards the surface at what would be an impossible speed for any known vehicle. Passing though layers of atmosphere, the colors of our destinations shimmer with their own unique characteristics, and suddenly we find ourselves floating in virtual space just above the ground.

A seamless zoom, starting with a spin of the Earth showing city lights in the darkness behind a terminator, then moving from space to the ground, using data from Terra-MODIS, Landsat-ETM+, and IKONOS, and ending at the Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium in Salt Lake City, UT.

Video slate image reads "Great Zoom into Olympic Stadium, Utah (Spin and Night Lights)".

Video slate image reads "Great Zoom into Olympic Stadium, Utah (Spin and Night Lights)".

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This page was originally published on Friday, February 8, 2002.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.

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