Aqua MODIS Acquisition and Products for Hyperwall
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- Visualizations by:
- Horace Mitchell
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Satellites only view a small piece of the earth at once. Over time, a larger composite view can be created from these small pieces. The images on this page are representative of some different types of data that are collected by satellites about the earth.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animator
- Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
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Project support
- Eric Sokolowsky (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
Datasets used in this visualization
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Aqua
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Terra
ID: 116
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.
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