Earth Observing Spacecraft Fleet shot for Dynamic Earth Dome Show

  • Released Tuesday, October 1, 2013
  • Updated Thursday, January 7, 2021 at 11:00AM
  • ID: 3880

NASA's Earth observing fleet orbiting Earth with the Sun and star layers composited. The individual layers are available below.

This visualization shows the orbits of NASA's fleet of Earth observing spacecraft. It also includes the International Space Station and Hubble Space Telescope. This was created for a planetarium dome show called Dynamic Earth and is produced in domemaster format (a type of fisheye projection).

The domemaster format was created by rendering 7 separate camera tiles. The tiles were then stitched together to form final domemaster layers at 4096x4096 resolution and 16 bits per channel with premultiplied alpha and no gamma correction. A composite version is provided along with the layers. There are 3 domemaster layers intended to be composited as follows: the Earth and orbits layer over Sun layer over star field (no alpha channel).

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Domemaster Earth and orbits layer

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Domemaster sun layer

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Domemaster star layer

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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

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

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Hipparcos Tycho Catalogue (A.K.A. Tycho 2 Catalogue) (Collected with the Telescope sensor)
Database

Dataset can be found at: http://archive.eso.org/ASTROM/

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