Earth ID: 3876

NASA's "Know Your Earth" Billboard

Visualizations by Alex Kekesi Released on November 7, 2011

This image was generated for the NASA "Know Your Earth" campaign and has been used on a billboard in Chicago as well as display monitors within Chicago's O'Hare airport. The data used is from NASA's Next Generation Blue Marble.

Print resolution beauty shot of the Earth featuring North and South America. The west African coast can be seen to the right.

Visualization Credits

Alex Kekesi (GST): Lead Animator
Holli Riebeek (Sigma Space Corporation): Producer
Brian Campbell (SAIC): Producer
Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC): Scientist

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).

Science Paper:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/BlueMarble/bmng.pdf

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https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3876

Mission:
Terra

Data Used:
Terra and Aqua/MODIS/Blue Marble Cloud Cover
Terra and Aqua/MODIS/Blue Marble Land Cover
Note: While we identify the data sets used in these visualizations, we do not store any further details nor the data sets themselves on our site.

This item is part of this series:
Know Your Earth

Keywords:
SVS >> Beauty Shot
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Atmosphere >> Clouds
NASA Science >> Earth

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0