Digital Earth Workbench: Aurora

  • Released Friday, November 12, 1999
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The Digital Earth Workbench is an interactive application that runs on a SGI Onyx Infinite Reality system and is controlled by an Immersive Workbench, tracked stereo glasses, and a tracked wand. The application allows an unprecedented freedom to roam georeferenced data sets at multiple resolutions and timescales. This animation is one of a series of direct screen captures of the application in operation. The occasional menu appearance denotes direct intervention by the operator to add or delete data or to activate a new control option.

From a large-scale view of Earths magnetic field and plasma pressure, the view is zoomed down to a view of the northern hemisphere, where time-varying images of the auroral oval are shown.

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio

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This page was originally published on Friday, November 12, 1999.
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