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Black means no data. || ", "release_date": "2019-12-02T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-02-03T00:50:19.579567-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 389438, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a030000/a031000/a031053/CMG_0_05_Deg_16_days_NDVI_print.jpg", "filename": "CMG_0_05_Deg_16_days_NDVI_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "16-day Terra/MODIS vegetation index maps beginning February 2000.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } }, { "id": 4741, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4741/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Active Fires As Observed by VIIRS, 2012-2018", "description": "Global Fires, 2012-2018 || fires_BT.0001_print.jpg (1024x576) [58.5 KB] || fires_BT.0001_searchweb.png (320x180) [36.5 KB] || fires_BT.0001_thm.png (80x40) [4.4 KB] || fires_BT_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [21.7 MB] || w_dates (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || fires_BT_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [11.8 MB] || ", "release_date": "2019-07-19T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-01-06T00:14:43.974620-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 394353, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004700/a004741/fires_BT.0001_print.jpg", "filename": "fires_BT.0001_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Global Fires, 2012-2018", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } }, { "id": 4718, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4718/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Visualization Elements for Global Freshwater Campaign", "description": "The following visualizations and animations were created in support of the video release \"NASA Follows Changing Freshwater from Space,\" entry ID 13227, for use as elements within the video. || ", "release_date": "2019-05-23T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-01-06T00:14:07.950324-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 395727, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004700/a004718/surface_imerg.0001_print.jpg", "filename": "surface_imerg.0001_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "SMAP/IMERG", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } }, { "id": 30763, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30763/", "page_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "title": "Blue Marble 2015", "description": "The Blue Marble, October 2015 || R_earth_viirs_1080p.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [117.4 KB] || R_earth_viirs_1080p.00001_searchweb.png (180x320) [56.3 KB] || R_earth_viirs_1080p.00001_thm.png (80x40) [4.3 KB] || R_earth_viirs_1080p.mp4 (1920x1080) [20.1 MB] || R_earth_viirs_720p.mp4 (1280x720) [11.0 MB] || R_earth_viirs_720p.webm (1280x720) [5.3 MB] || R_Earth_fast_2304p.mp4 (4096x2304) [52.5 MB] || R_earth_viirs_360p.mp4 (640x360) [3.6 MB] || fast (4104x2304) [32.0 KB] || R_earth_viirs_4k.mp4 (4104x2304) [52.5 MB] || ", "release_date": "2016-04-05T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2024-10-13T00:29:49.843815-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 425599, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a030000/a030700/a030763/R_earth_viirs_1080p.00001_print.jpg", "filename": "R_earth_viirs_1080p.00001_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The Blue Marble, October 2015", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } }, { "id": 30748, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30748/", "page_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "title": "Sea Surface Temperature and Temperature Anomaly 2015-2016", "description": "El Niño is characterized by unusually warm ocean temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific. Sea surface temperature is the temperature of the top millimeter of the ocean's surface. A sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTA) represents how different the ocean temperature, at a particular location and time, is from the normal (or average) temperature for that place and time. These maps, showing sea surface temperature and sea surface temperature anomalies, reveal the progression of the strong 2015-16 El Nino event from January 1, 2015 to January 2, 2016. The sea surface temperature data are seven-day averages calculated using daily thermal data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument. Missing data have been filled with monthly-average data. The sea surface temperature anomaly data are seven-day averages calculated using the 5-kilometer Coral Reef Watch product produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The data are based on observations from geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites. || ", "release_date": "2016-02-01T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2024-12-15T00:23:51.623049-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 433465, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a030000/a030700/a030748/sst_and_ssta_still_print.jpg", "filename": "sst_and_ssta_still_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Sea Surface Temperature compared to Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly", "width": 1024, "height": 574, "pixels": 587776 } }, { "id": 3827, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3827/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Perpetual Ocean", "description": "This visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through December 2007. The visualization does not include a narration or annotations; the goal was to use ocean flow data to create a simple, visceral experience.This visualization was produced using model output from the joint MIT/JPL project: Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase II or ECCO2. ECCO2 uses the MIT general circulation model (MITgcm) to synthesize satellite and in-situ data of the global ocean and sea-ice at resolutions that begin to resolve ocean eddies and other narrow current systems, which transport heat and carbon in the oceans. ECCO2 provides ocean flows at all depths, but only surface flows are used in this visualization. The dark patterns under the ocean represent the undersea bathymetry. Topographic land exaggeration is 20x and bathymetric exaggeration is 40x. This visualization was shown at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 Computer Animation Festival.Don't miss these related visualizations:Excerpt form Dynamic EarthGulf Stream Sea Surface Currents and TemperaturesOcean Current Flows around the Mediterranean Sea for UNESCOGlobal Sea Surface Currents and TemperatureFlat Map Ocean Current Flows with Sea Surface Temperatures (SST) || ", "release_date": "2011-08-15T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-03-16T22:02:32.894711-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 486757, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003800/a003827/siggraph_currents_STILL2.15402_web.png", "filename": "siggraph_currents_STILL2.15402_web.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Print resolution still of Gulf Stream", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } }, { "id": 10360, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10360/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Mars Methane Spectroscopy", "description": "Conceptual animation demonstrating the process of spectroscopy. The first animation demonstrates the general concept of visible-light spectroscopy by which white light is separated into its component wavelengths (colors) using a prism. The second animation demonstrates how this idea is applied to the discovery of methane in Mars' atmosphere. 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The first animation demonstrates the general concept of visible-light spectroscopy by which white light is separated into its component wavelengths (colors) using a prism. The second animation demonstrates how this idea is applied to the discovery of methane in Mars' atmosphere. Because it absorbs specific wavelengths of electromagnetic energy, methane has a 'fingerprint' that can be seen as missing lines on the resulting spectograph.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } ], "products": [], "newer_versions": [], "older_versions": [], "alternate_versions": [] }