ICESat Aerosols over Africa
This is an animation showing data from ICESat's Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS). Aerosol data are shown spanning 80 passes over the Africa region from October 4 through October 28 2003. The data are initially shown in the time order collected using an 8 day moving time window. After that, the first 40 passes are all shown at once and a flown over.
Tour of aerosol data over Africa
Aerosols over southern Africa
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animators
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
- Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Scientist
- Steve Palm (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, March 10, 2005.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:56 PM EDT.
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Datasets used in this visualization
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[ICESat: GLAS]
ID: 38
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