One Thousand Earths Could Fit Inside Jupiter

  • Released Monday, September 21, 2009
  • Updated Sunday, January 11, 2015 at 5:27PM
  • ID: 3608
This animation illustrates that it would take about 1000 Earths to fill a volume the size of Jupiter.

This visualization was created in support of the Science On a Sphere film called "LARGEST" which is about Jupiter. The visualziation was choreographed to fit into "LARGEST" as a layer that is intended to be composited with other layers. In this case, mulitple layers are provided to make the it appear as if a sphere were filling up with Earths. These frames are in cylindrical equidistant projection and are intended to be viewed wrapped to a sphere. A sample composite of the layers is provided to show how the shot might be composed from the source layers.

1000 Earths fill Jupiter volume (composite of each of the layers — showing how the shot was intended to look)

1000 Earths fill Jupiter volume (layer 14 - all layers)

1000 Earths fill Jupiter volume (layer 13)

1000 Earths fill Jupiter volume (layer 12)

1000 Earths fill Jupiter volume (layer 11)

1000 Earths fill Jupiter volume (layer 10)

1000 Earths fill Jupiter volume (layer 9)

1000 Earths fill Jupiter volume (layer 8)

1000 Earths fill Jupiter volume (layer 7)

1000 Earths fill Jupiter volume (layer 6)

1000 Earths fill Jupiter volume (layer 5)

1000 Earths fill Jupiter volume (layer 4)

1000 Earths fill Jupiter volume (layer 3)

1000 Earths fill Jupiter volume (layer 2)

1000 Earths fill Jupiter volume (layer 1)

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio The Blue Marble Next Generation data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC) and NASA's Earth Observatory.

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Terra and Aqua BMNG (A.K.A. Blue Marble: Next Generation) (Collected with the MODIS sensor)

Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).

Dataset can be found at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/

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CPC (Climate Prediction Center) Cloud Composite
Data CompilationClimate Prediction Center (CPC)2007/06/29 to

Global cloud cover from multiple satellites

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