NCCS Hyperwall Show: Earth Observing Fleet with GEOS-5 Clouds

  • Released Friday, June 18th, 2010
  • Updated Friday, August 25th, 2023 at 12:00AM
  • ID: 3725
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This visualization is an update to a previous visualization of NASA's Earth observing fleet of spacecraft. Also incuded in this version are a couple of commercial spacecraft as well as the International Space Station and the Hubble Space Telescope. The spacecraft ephemerides are from February 2010.

The clouds are from a simulation using the Goddard Earth Observing System Model, Verison 5 (GEOS-5). The global atmospheric simulation ran at a resolution of 7-km per grid cell and covered a period from Feb 2, 2010 through Feb 22, 2010. The results of the simulation were written out at 30 minute intervals.

This visualization was created for display on the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) hyperwall. This is a set of tiled high definition displays consisting of 5 displays across by 3 displays down. The full resolution of all combined displays is 6840 pixels across by 2304 pixels down. This movie was rendered at this high resolution, then diced up into images to be displayed on each screen.

Fully composited version of orbital fleet with GEOS-5 modeled clouds (all tiles together)

The large animation above is diced-up into smaller pieces that can be played on the hyperwall. Each piece is named according to a standard spreadsheet convention with a1 at the upper left and e3 at the lower right. This image illustrates this naming convention used in the diced-up frame sets below.

The large animation above is diced-up into smaller pieces that can be played on the hyperwall. Each piece is named according to a standard spreadsheet convention with a1 at the upper left and e3 at the lower right. This image illustrates this naming convention used in the diced-up frame sets below.

Display a1 of orbital fleet

Display a2 of orbital fleet

Display a3 of orbital fleet

Display b1 of orbital fleet

Display b2 of orbital fleet

Display b3 of orbital fleet

Display c1 of orbital fleet

Display c2 of orbital fleet

Display c3 of orbital fleet

Display d1 of orbital fleet

Display d2 of orbital fleet

Display d3 of orbital fleet

Display e1 of orbital fleet

Display e2 of orbital fleet

Display e3 of orbital fleet

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Datasets used in this visualization

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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CelesTrak Spacecraft Orbit Ephemeris
Ephemeris 02/2010

Dataset can be found at: http://celestrak.com

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GEOS-5 Cubed-Sphere (A.K.A. GEOS-5 Atmospheric Model on the Cubed-Sphere)
Model NASA GMAO 02/02/2010 though 02/22/2010

The model is the GEOS-5 atmospheric model on the cubed-sphere, run at 14-km global resolution for 30-days. GEOS-5 is described here http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/systems/geos5/ and the cubed-sphere work is described here http://sivo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cubedsphere_overview.html.

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