Two Posters of Earth with Sea Ice and Clouds over a Star Background
These very high resolution images show a global view of the Earth at different orientations with Arctic sea ice on December 8,2008 and September 15, 2008. The extent of the sea ice was determined by the AMSR-E sea ice concentration data. The terrain shows the average land cover for the related months over the continents. (See Blue Marble Next Generation) The global cloud cover shown was obtained from the original Blue Marble cloud data distributed in 2002. (See Blue Marble:Clouds) A matching star background is provided.
Earth with clouds and sea ice from December 8, 2008 with a transparent background.
A star field to serve as a background for the above Earth image.
Earth with clouds and sea ice from September 15, 2008 with a transparent background.
A star field with a transparent background o serve as a background for the above Earth image.
A photograph of the completed wall mural.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
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Visualizer
- Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Monday, December 1, 2008.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:55 PM EDT.
Datasets used in this visualization
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Sea Ice Concentration (Daily L3 12.5km Tb, Sea Ice Concentration, and Snow Depth) [Aqua: AMSR-E]
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Hipparcos Catalogue [Hipparcos: Telescope]
ID: 549This dataset can be found at: http://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?project=HIPPARCOS
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Tycho Catalogue (Tycho 2 Catalogue) [Hipparcos: Telescope]
ID: 550This dataset can be found at: http://archive.eso.org/ASTROM/
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