{ "id": 40302, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/svsyoutube-candidates/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "SVS YouTube Candidates", "description": "These are the proposed visualization candidates to be included in the SVS YouTube Channel.", "release_date": "2016-06-03T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2016-06-17T00:00:00-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 475216, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011000/a011003/DynamicEarth-Still1_02371.jpg", "filename": "DynamicEarth-Still1_02371.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "A coronal mass ejection erupts from the Sun.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 }, "media_groups": [ { "id": 371069, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/svsyoutube-candidates/#media_group_371069", "widget": "Basic text (large)", "title": "Overview", "caption": "", "description": "These are the proposed visualization candidates to be included in the SVS YouTube Channel.", "items": [], "extra_data": {} }, { "id": 371070, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/svsyoutube-candidates/#media_group_371070", "widget": "Tile gallery", "title": "Featured Videos", "caption": "", "description": "", "items": [ { "id": 408804, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 11003, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11003/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Excerpt from \"Dynamic Earth\"", "description": "A giant explosion of magnetic energy from the sun, called a coronal mass ejection, slams into and is deflected completely by the Earth's powerful magnetic field. The sun also continually sends out streams of light and radiation energy. Earth's atmosphere acts like a radiation shield, blocking quite a bit of this energy.Much of the radiation energy that makes it through is reflected back into space by clouds, ice and snow and the energy that remains helps to drive the Earth system, powering a remarkable planetary engine — the climate. It becomes the energy that feeds swirling wind and ocean currents as cold air and surface waters move toward the equator and warm air and water moves toward the poles — all in an attempt to equalize temperatures around the world.A jury appointed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Science magazine has selected \"Excerpt from Dynamic Earth\" as the winner of the 2013 NSF International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge for the Video category. This animation will be highlighted in the February 2014 special section of Science and will be hosted on ScienceMag.org and NSF.govThis animation was selected for the Computer Animation Festival's Electronic Theater at the Association for Computer Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH), a prestigious computer graphics and technical research forum. This is an excerpt from the fulldome, high-resolution show 'Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine.' The Dynamic Earth dome show was selected as a finalist in the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival Science Media Awards under the category \"Best Immersive Cinema - Fulldome\". || ", "release_date": "2012-06-19T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2019-09-26T08:18:23-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 475216, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011000/a011003/DynamicEarth-Still1_02371.jpg", "filename": "DynamicEarth-Still1_02371.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "A coronal mass ejection erupts from the Sun.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 408805, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "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": 408806, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3413, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3413/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Towers in the Tempest", "description": "This visualization won Honorable Mention in the National Science Foundation's Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge in September 2007. It was also shown during the SIGGRAPH 2008 Computer Animation Festival in Los Angeles, CA. 'Towers in the Tempest' is a 4.5 minute narrated animation that explains recent scientific insights into how hurricanes intensify. This intensification can be caused by a phenomenon called a 'hot tower'. For the first time, research meteorologists have run complex simulations using a very fine temporal resolution of 3 minutes. Combining this simulation data with satellite observations enables detailed study of 'hot towers'. The science of 'hot towers' is described using: observed hurricane data from a satellite, descriptive illustrations, and volumetric visualizations of simulation data. The first section of the animation shows actual data from Hurricane Bonnie observed by NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) spacecraft. Three dimensional precipitation radar data reveal a strong 'hot tower' in Hurricane Bonnie's internal structure. The second section uses illustrations to show the dynamics of a hurricane and the formation of 'hot towers'. 'Hot towers' are formed as air spirals inward towards the eye and is forced rapidly upwards, accelerating the movement of energy into high altitude clouds. The third section shows these processes using volumetric cloud, wind, and vorticity data from a supercomputer simulation of Hurricane Bonnie. Vertical wind speed data highlights a 'hot tower'. Arrows representing the wind field move rapidly up into the 'hot tower, boosting the energy and intensifying the hurricane. Combining satellite observations with super-computer simulations provides a powerful tool for studying Earth's complex systems. The complete script is available here . The storyboard is available here . There is also a movie of storyboard drawings with narration below. || ", "release_date": "2007-05-10T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:55:41.885207-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 508637, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003400/a003413/caf_0388_still.jpg", "filename": "caf_0388_still.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Composite still", "width": 2696, "height": 1594, "pixels": 4297424 } } }, { "id": 408807, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3595, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3595/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Sentinels of the Heliosphere", "description": "Heliophysics is a term to describe the study of the Sun, its atmosphere or the heliosphere, and the planets within it as a system. As a result, it encompasses the study of planetary atmospheres and their magnetic environment, or magnetospheres. These environments are important in the study of space weather.As a society dependent on technology, both in everyday life, and as part of our economic growth, space weather becomes increasingly important. Changes in space weather, either by solar events or geomagnetic events, can disrupt and even damage power grids and satellite communications. Space weather events can also generate x-rays and gamma-rays, as well as particle radiations, that can jeopardize the lives of astronauts living and working in space.This visualization tours the regions of near-Earth orbit; the Earth's magnetosphere, sometimes called geospace; the region between the Earth and the Sun; and finally out beyond Pluto, where Voyager 1 and 2 are exploring the boundary between the Sun and the rest of our Milky Way galaxy. Along the way, we see these regions patrolled by a fleet of satellites that make up NASA's Heliophysics Observatory Telescopes. Many of these spacecraft do not take images in the conventional sense but record fields, particle energies and fluxes in situ. Many of these missions are operated in conjunction with international partners, such as the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA).The Earth and distances are to scale. Larger objects are used to represent the satellites and other planets for clarity.Here are the spacecraft featured in this movie:Near-Earth Fleet:Hinode: Observes the Sun in multiple wavelengths up to x-rays. SVS pageRHESSI : Observes the Sun in x-rays and gamma-rays. SVS pageTRACE: Observes the Sun in visible and ultraviolet wavelengths. SVS pageTIMED: Studies the upper layers (40-110 miles up) of the Earth's atmosphere.FAST: Measures particles and fields in regions where aurora form.CINDI: Measures interactions of neutral and charged particles in the ionosphere. AIM: Images and measures noctilucent clouds. SVS pageGeospace Fleet:Geotail: Conducts measurements of electrons and ions in the Earth's magnetotail. Cluster: This is a group of four satellites which fly in formation to measure how particles and fields in the magnetosphere vary in space and time. SVS pageTHEMIS: This is a fleet of five satellites to study how magnetospheric instabilities produce substorms. SVS pageL1 Fleet: The L1 point is a Lagrange Point, a point between the Earth and the Sun where the gravitational pull is approximately equal. Spacecraft can orbit this location for continuous coverage of the Sun.SOHO: Studies the Sun with cameras and a multitude of other instruments. SVS pageACE: Measures the composition and characteristics of the solar wind. Wind: Measures particle flows and fields in the solar wind. Heliospheric FleetSTEREO-A and B: These two satellites observe the Sun, with imagers and particle detectors, off the Earth-Sun line, providing a 3-D view of solar activity. SVS pageHeliopause FleetVoyager 1 and 2: These spacecraft conducted the original 'Planetary Grand Tour' of the solar system in the 1970s and 1980s. They have now travelled further than any human-built spacecraft and are still returning measurements of the interplanetary medium. SVS pageThis enhanced, narrated visualization was shown at the SIGGRAPH 2009 Computer Animation Festival in New Orleans, LA in August 2009; an eariler version created for AGU was called NASA's Heliophysics Observatories Study the Sun and Geospace. || ", "release_date": "2009-07-27T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-01-05T22:01:59.957021-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 496868, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003500/a003595/Sentinels01500.jpg", "filename": "Sentinels01500.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This movie shows the orbits of the fleet of NASA spacecraft exploring the heliosphere.For complete transcript, click here.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 408808, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3354, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3354/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "27 Storms: Arlene to Zeta", "description": "Many records were broken during the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season including the most hurricanes ever, the most category 5 hurricanes, and the most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic as measured by atmospheric pressure. This visualization shows all 27 named storms that formed in the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season and examines some of the conditions that made hurricane formation so favorable.The animation begins by showing the regions of warm water that are favorable for storm development advancing northward through the peak of hurricane season and then receding as the waters cool. The thermal energy in these warm waters powers the hurricanes. Strong shearing winds in the troposphere can disrupt developing young storms, but measurements indicate that there was very little shearing wind activity in 2005 to impede storm formation.Sea surface temperatures, clouds, storm tracks, and hurricane category labels are shown as the hurricane season progresses.This visualization shows some of the actual data that NASA and NOAA satellites measured in 2005 — data used to predict the paths and intensities of hurricanes. Satellite data play a vital role in helping us understand the land, ocean, and atmosphere systems that have such dramatic effects on our lives.NOTE: This animation shows the named storms from the 2005 hurricane season. During a re-analysis of 2005, NOAA's Tropical Prediction Center/National Hurricane Center determined that a short-lived subtropcial storm developed near the Azores Islands in late September, increasing the 2005 tropical storm count from 27 to 28. This storm was not named and is not shown in this animation.'27 Storms: Arlene to Zeta' played in the SIGGRAPH 2007 Computer Animation Festival in August 2007. It was also a finalist in the 2006 NSF Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. || ", "release_date": "2006-05-31T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-01-05T00:00:30.812252-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 510914, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003300/a003354/27stormsOL.01000_web.png", "filename": "27stormsOL.01000_web.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Full version with audio and annotationsThis video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 320, "height": 180, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 408809, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4370, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4370/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Solar Wind Strips the Martian Atmosphere", "description": "Scientists have long suspected the solar wind of stripping the Martian upper atmosphere into space, turning Mars from a blue world to a red one. Now, NASA's MAVEN orbiter is observing this process in action, providing significant data on solar wind erosion at Mars.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || MarsAtmoLossExplainPreview.jpg (1920x1080) [993.6 KB] || APPLE_TV_4370_MAVEN_Mars_Atmo_Loss_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [53.7 MB] || WEBM_4370_MAVEN_Mars_Atmo_Loss_APR.webm (960x540) [44.7 MB] || 4370_MAVEN_Mars_Atmo_Loss_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [53.7 MB] || NASA_TV_4370_MAVEN_Mars_Atmo_Loss.mpeg (1280x720) [369.5 MB] || 4370_MAVEN_Mars_Atmo_Loss_APR_Output.en_US.srt [2.3 KB] || 4370_MAVEN_Mars_Atmo_Loss_APR_Output.en_US.vtt [2.3 KB] || LARGE_MP4_4370_MAVEN_Mars_Atmo_Loss_large.mp4 (3840x2160) [111.3 MB] || YOUTUBE_HQ_4370_MAVEN_Mars_Atmo_Loss_youtube_hq.mov (3840x2160) [2.2 GB] || 4370_MAVEN_Mars_Atmo_Loss_APR.mov (3840x2160) [5.9 GB] || ", "release_date": "2015-11-05T14:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-01-05T22:49:15.588166-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 439148, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004300/a004370/final_ions01.4300_print.jpg", "filename": "final_ions01.4300_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Movie without music and titles. Available for download in up to 4k resolution.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408810, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4397, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4397/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Monsoons: Wet, Dry, Repeat...", "description": "This visualization shows the Asian monsoon and how it develops using observational and modeled data. It also showns some of the impacts.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || monsoon_final_HD01.02500_print.jpg (1024x576) [182.2 KB] || final (1920x1080) [1.0 MB] || Monsoon_narrated_19201080p30.webm (1920x1080) [29.6 MB] || Monsoon_narrated_640x360p30.m4v (640x360) [43.4 MB] || monsoon_final_HD01_640x360_noNarration.m4v (640x360) [37.2 MB] || 3840x2160_16x9_60p (3840x2160) [1.0 MB] || monsoonnarrfull.en_US.srt [4.9 KB] || monsoonnarrfull.en_US.vtt [4.9 KB] || Monsoon_narrated_19201080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [512.5 MB] || Monsoon_narrated_1920x1080p60_prores.mov (1920x1080) [7.3 GB] || monsoon_final_1920x1080p60_noNarration.mp4 (1920x1080) [387.4 MB] || monsoon_final_4kp30_noNarration.mp4 (3840x2160) [1.2 GB] || ", "release_date": "2016-06-23T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2024-10-06T22:29:21.568765-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 438033, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004300/a004397/monsoon_final_4k01.08470_print.jpg", "filename": "monsoon_final_4k01.08470_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "In the summer the land gets hotter, heating the atmosphere and pulling in cooler air from the oceans. In the winter the land cools off and winds move towards the warmer ocean. Notice that there is a day-night temperature difference that varies around the seasonal averages.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408811, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4013, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4013/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Life Histories from Landsat: 25 Years in the Pacific Northwest Forest", "description": "This visualization shows a sequence of Landsat-based data in the Pacific Northwest. There is one data set for each year representing an aggregate of the approximate peak of the growing season (around August). The data was created using a sophisticated algorithm called LandTrendr. LandTrendr analyzes 'stacks' of Landsat scenes, looking for statistical trends in the data and filtering out noise. The algorithm evaluated data from more than 1,800 Landsat Thematic Mapper images, nearly 1 Terabyte of raw imagery, to define the life histories of each of more than 336 million pixels on the landscape. The resulting trends identify periods of stability and change that are displayed as colors.In these false color images, the colors represent types of land; for example, blue areas are forests; orange/yellow areas are agriculture; and, purple areas are urban. Each 'stack' is representative of a Landsat scene. There are 22 stacks stitched together to cover most of the U.S. Pacific Northwest. This processed data is used for science, natural resource management, and education.The visualization zooms into the Portland area showing different types of land such as agricultural, urban, and forests. We move south to a region that was evergreen forest for a number of years (blue), then was clear cut in 1999 (orange), then began to regrow (yellow). A graph shows the trajectories for a particular location in the clearcut as the years repeat. The dots represent the original data from Landsat; and, the line represents LandTrendr analysis. We move over to the Three Sisters region to show an area of pine forest that becomes infested with bark beetles in 2004. Next, we move to the southern foothills of Mount Hood where a budworm infestation is in progress; around 1991, the worms move on to another area and shrubs start to regrow. Next wemove to the east side of Mount Rainier National Park to see another budworm outbreak followed by shrub regrowth. Finally, we move to the west of Mount Rainier where we can see widespread clear cutting outside of the park, but no clear cutting inside the protected park land.Don't miss this related tour of the region. || ", "release_date": "2012-12-07T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2024-12-15T00:03:00.207465-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 469505, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004000/a004013/landtrendr_agu35_noCharts.08001.jpg", "filename": "landtrendr_agu35_noCharts.08001.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "LandTrendr analysis of the Pacific Northwest. No audio and no graphs.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 408812, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4094, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4094/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Chelyabinsk Bolide Plume as seen by NPP and NASA Models", "description": "Shortly after dawn on Feb. 15, 2013, a bolide measuring 18 meters across and weighing 11,000 metric tons, screamed into Earth's atmosphere at 18.6 kilometers per second. Burning from the friction with Earth's thin air, the space rock exploded 23.3 kilometers above Chelyabinsk, Russia. The event led to the formation of a new dust belt in Earth's stratosphere. Scientists used data from the NASA-NOAA Suomi NPP satellite along with the GEOS-5 computational atmospheric model to achieve the first space-based observation of the long-term evolution of a bolide plume.NPP's Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) Limb instrument first observed the dust plume from the explosion about 1,100 kilometers east of Chelyabinsk, due to the location of the satellite's orbit. NPP's second observation was farther west, close to Chelyabinsk, because the spacecraft's orbit moves from east to west. The third observation of the plume occurred the day following the event. The OMPS instrument could only see the plume during the daytime, and the NPP orbit had progressed westward away from the plume and into night by the time it was again over the plume.The OMPS Limb instrument observations are made by looking backward (relative to NPP's orbit) toward the Earth's limb. The instrument makes measurements through three separate slits. Early on, some of the plume observations where only made in one or two of the slits, but later observations tended to include all three slits as the plume stretched out. || ", "release_date": "2013-08-14T13:30:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-01-05T22:24:46.088657-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 462988, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004000/a004094/chelyabinsk_comp.08380.jpg", "filename": "chelyabinsk_comp.08380.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This visualization shows the how observations by the Suomi NPP satellite's Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) Limb instrument, and information from the GEOS-5 computational atmospheric model, together revealed the bolide plume snaking around the atmosphere. For complete transcript, click here.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 408813, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 11214, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11214/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "TDRS: The Network That Enables Exploration", "description": "NASA is preparing to launch the second, in a series of three, third generation advanced Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, known as TDRS. This latest addition to the fleet of eight, TDRS-L, will augment a space communications network that provides the critical path for high data-rate communication to the International Space Station, Hubble Space Telescope, human occupied spacecraft and a host of other spacecraft. || ", "release_date": "2014-01-21T13:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:51:18.085492-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 459322, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a011214/TDRS-L-Network.png", "filename": "TDRS-L-Network.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "In 1983, NASA launched the first of a series of new communication and navigation satellites that would rely less on international ground stations and provide continuous coverage. For complete transcript, click here.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 408814, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4045, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4045/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Aquarius Sea Surface Salinity Tour 2012", "description": "The Aquarius spacecraft is designed to measure global sea surface salinity. It is important to understand salinity, the amount of dissolved salts in water, because it will lead us to better understanding of the water cycle and can lead to improved climate models. Aquarius is a collaboration between NASA and the Space Agency of ArgentinaThis visualization celebrates over a year of successful Aquarius observations. Sea surface salinity is shown at various locations around the globe highlighting the following:the Atlantic Ocean is generally much more salty than the Pacificlow salinity waters in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific are transported westwardhigh influxes of fresh water from the Amazon River basin can be clearly seenlow salinity waters are transported by the Labrador current to the southhigh influxes of fresh water from the Ganges River basin can be seen keeping the Eastern Indian Ocean lower salinity than the Western Indian OceanThe range of time shown is December 2011 through Decemeber 2012. The data continuously loops through this range every 6 seconds. This visualization was generated based on version 2.0 of the Aquarius data products with all 3 scanning beams. || ", "release_date": "2013-02-27T12:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-02-02T22:10:40.775151-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 467972, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004000/a004045/aquarius_final01.03800.jpg", "filename": "aquarius_final01.03800.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "A tour of Aquarius sea surface salinity data highlighting interesting features including: the North Atlantic, Eastern Pacific, Amazon outflow, Labrador current, and Indian Ocean.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 408815, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3437, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3437/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "The A-Train Observes Tropical Storm Debby", "description": "The A-Train is a group of spacecraft flying in close formation allowing data taken by each instrument to be correlated to the other instruments providing data synergy. The A-Train includes Aqua, CloudSat, CALIPSO, Parasol, and Aura. The animation begins showing the Earth with moving clouds and with a day/night terminator. Time slows down, and A-train spacecraft orbits are added during a daytime pass. The orbits progress around the globe for 12 hours. During a night time pass the camera zooms into Tropical Storm Debby as the A-train flies over on August 24, 2006. Data sets from some of the A-train's spacecraft/instruments are shown including Aqua/MODIS, CloudSat, CALIPSO, and Aqua/AIRS. This visualization was created to support an A-Train session at the 2007 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). || ", "release_date": "2007-07-22T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2024-06-24T15:37:50.822464-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 507949, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003400/a003437/a_train_igarss2007.1700.jpg", "filename": "a_train_igarss2007.1700.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The A-Train observes Tropical Storm DebbyThis video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1280, "height": 720, "pixels": 921600 } } }, { "id": 408816, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 2853, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2853/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Multisensor Fire Observations with Labels (HD Version)", "description": "From space, we can understand fires in ways that are impossible from the ground. New Earth-observing satellites capture the significant impact of fires on our planet. In this animation of fires around the globe in 2002, each red dot marks a new fire. Dots change color to yellow after a few days and to black when fires burn out. From brush fires in Africa to forest fires in North America, satellites are locating every significant fire on Earth to within one kilometer. In the summer and fall burning seasons, particularly destructive fires occurred in Colorado, Arizona, and Oregon. This version of the visualization displays descriptive text labels and color bars. There is a standard definition version available as well. || ", "release_date": "2004-01-31T12:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:56:50.510971-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 520738, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002800/a002853/hd002853_720p_pre.jpg", "filename": "hd002853_720p_pre.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The High Definition version of the Multisensor Fire Observation animation with audio, text labels and colorbars.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 320, "height": 180, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 408817, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 11491, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11491/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Landsat 8 Onion Skin", "description": "Landsat satellites circle the globe every 99 minutes, collecting data about the land surfaces passing underneath. After 16 days, the Landsat satellite has passed over every spot on the globe, and recorded data in 11 different wavelength regions. The individual wavelength bands can be combined into color images, with different combinations of the 11 bands revealing different information about the condition of the land cover.The data for this video was collected by Landsat 5 on November 10, 2011. || ", "release_date": "2014-02-24T19:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:51:09.742322-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 458057, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011400/a011491/G2014-020_Onion_Skin_MASTER_nasaportal_print.jpg", "filename": "G2014-020_Onion_Skin_MASTER_nasaportal_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Landsat satellites circle the globe, recording data in 11 different wavelengths. The individual wavelength bands can be combined into color images, with different combinations of the 11 bands revealing different information about the condition of the land cover.For complete transcript, click here.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408818, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 11508, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11508/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "GPM GMI First Light", "description": "On March 10, the Core Observatory passed over an extra-tropical cyclone about 1055 miles (1700 kilometers) due east of Japan's Honshu Island. This visualization shows data from the GPM Microwave Imager, which observes different types of precipitation with 13 channels. Scientists analyze that data and then use it to calculate the light to heavy rain rates and falling snow within the storm. || ", "release_date": "2014-03-25T01:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-02-01T00:18:27.359901-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 457054, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011500/a011508/First_Light_Narr_v1_nasaportal_web.png", "filename": "First_Light_Narr_v1_nasaportal_web.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Narrated video using the first light visualizations of the GPM GMI instrument.For complete transcript, click here.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 320, "height": 180, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 408819, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 12164, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12164/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Winston Over Fiji", "description": "Joe Munchak describes the features of Tropical Cyclone Winston. || Winston_narrated_youtube_hq_print.jpg (1024x576) [145.7 KB] || Winston_narrated_youtube_hq_searchweb.png (320x180) [97.6 KB] || Winston_narrated_youtube_hq_thm.png (80x40) [6.5 KB] || LARGE_MP4_Winston_narrated_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [49.5 MB] || WEBM_Winston_narrated.webm (960x540) [19.8 MB] || Winston_narrated.mpeg (1280x720) [164.9 MB] || Winston_narrated_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [195.6 MB] || Winston_narrated_prores.mov (1920x1080) [696.0 MB] || Winston.en_US.srt [831 bytes] || Winston.en_US.vtt [843 bytes] || Winston_narrated_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [8.5 MB] || ", "release_date": "2016-02-29T13:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:48:51.079589-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 426431, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012100/a012164/Winston_narrated_youtube_hq_print.jpg", "filename": "Winston_narrated_youtube_hq_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Joe Munchak describes the features of Tropical Cyclone Winston.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408820, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 12007, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12007/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "GPM Gets a Ton of Kilo", "description": "A narrated visualization of Hurricane/Typhoon Kilo.For complete transcript, click here. || Kilo_still_print.jpg (1024x583) [160.6 KB] || Kilo_still_searchweb.png (320x180) [110.8 KB] || Kilo_still_thm.png (80x40) [9.9 KB] || APPLE_TV_G2015-074_Kilo_master_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [48.5 MB] || WEBM_G2015-074_Kilo_master.webm (960x540) [42.5 MB] || APPLE_TV_G2015-074_Kilo_master_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [48.5 MB] || YOUTUBE_HQ_Kilo_final_revised_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [596.0 MB] || YOUTUBE_HQ_G2015-074_Kilo_master_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [596.0 MB] || Kilo.en_US.srt [1.7 KB] || Kilo.en_US.vtt [1.7 KB] || NASA_PODCAST_G2015-074_Kilo_master_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [17.3 MB] || G2015-074_Kilo_master_prores.mov (1920x1080) [2.8 GB] || ", "release_date": "2015-09-17T12:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:49:20.240159-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 439573, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012000/a012007/Kilo_still_print.jpg", "filename": "Kilo_still_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "A narrated visualization of Hurricane/Typhoon Kilo.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 1024, "height": 583, "pixels": 596992 } } }, { "id": 408821, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 11635, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11635/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "GPM Looks Inside a Snow Storm", "description": "On March 17, 2014 the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's Core Observatory flew over the East coast's last snow storm of the 2013-2014 winter season. This was also one of the first major snow storms observed by GPM shortly after it was launched on February 27, 2014.The GPM Core Observatory carries two instruments that show the location and intensity of rain and snow, which defines a crucial part of the storm structure – and how it will behave. The GPM Microwave Imager sees through the tops of clouds to observe how much and where precipitation occurs, and the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar observes precise details of precipitation in 3-dimensions.For forecasters, GPM's microwave and radar data are part of the toolbox of satellite data, including other low Earth orbit and geostationary satellites, that they use to monitor tropical cyclones and hurricanes. || ", "release_date": "2014-09-04T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:50:37.441718-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 452214, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011600/a011635/GPM_2nd_Light_Narr_nasaportal_print.jpg", "filename": "GPM_2nd_Light_Narr_nasaportal_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "A narrated version of the storm visualizations.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408822, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 11376, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11376/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "IPCC Projections of Temperature and Precipitation in the 21st Century", "description": "New data visualizations from the NASA Center for Climate Simulation and NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio show how climate models – those used in the new report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – estimate how temperature and precipitation patterns could change throughout the 21st century. For the IPCC's Physical Science Basis and Summary for Policymakers reports, scientists referenced an international climate modeling effort to study how the Earth might respond to four different scenarios of how much carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases would be emitted into the atmosphere throughout the 21st century. The Summary for Policymakers, the first official piece of the group's Fifth Assessment Report, was released Fri., Sept. 27.That modeling effort, called the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5), includes dozens of climate models from institutions around the world, including from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.To produce visualizations that show temperature and precipitation changes similar to those included in the IPCC report, the NASA Center for Climate Simulation calculated mean model results for each of the four emissions scenarios. The final products are visual representations how much temperature and precipitation patterns would change through 2100 compared to the historical average from the end of the 20th century. The changes shown compare the model projections to the average temperature and precipitation benchmarks observed from 1971-2000. This baseline is different from the IPCC report, which uses a 1986-2005 baseline. Because the reference period from 1986-2005 was slightly warmer than 1971-2000, the visualizations are slightly different than those in the report, even though the same model data is used. || ", "release_date": "2013-09-27T08:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-05-20T00:17:11.898374-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 461912, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011300/a011376/G2013-080_IPCC_viz00136_print.jpg", "filename": "G2013-080_IPCC_viz00136_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Climate models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimate global temperature and precipitation patterns will change throughout the 21st century given current rising greenhouse gas concentrations. This visualization is based on a scenario in which carbon dioxide concentrations reach 670 parts per million by 2100, up from around 400 ppm today. Credit: NASA Center for Climate Simulation/Scientific Visualization StudioFor complete transcript, click here.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408823, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 1402, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/1402/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Earth Today 1998", "description": "The ability to see Earth from space has forever changed our view of the planet. We are now able to look at the Earth as a whole, and observe how its atmosphere, oceans, land masses, and life interact as global systems. Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere are dynamic, changing on timescales of days, minutes, or even seconds. Monitoring the Earth in near real time allows us to get an up to date picture of conditions on our planet. More SVS visualizations for the Earth Today exhibit can be found in animation ids 328 and 1401. || ", "release_date": "1998-10-20T12:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:59:36.980319-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 545713, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a001400/a001402/f01_planets_web.jpg", "filename": "f01_planets_web.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Our Solar System", "width": 320, "height": 256, "pixels": 81920 } } }, { "id": 408824, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 10349, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10349/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "LRO Scouts for Safe Landing Sites (Narrated)", "description": "The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is NASA's scouting mission to prepare for a return to the moon. One of its primary objectives will be to assess the lunar terrain for areas that would provide safe landing sites for future missions, both manned and unmanned, that plan to touch down on the moon's surface. This video helps explain how LRO will accomplish its objective.The raw animation sequences used to create this video feature as well as high resolution stills from the video can be viewed and downloaded from How LRO Will Find Safe Landing Sites on the Moon (#3533). || ", "release_date": "2008-09-03T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:55:05.931906-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 502011, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010300/a010349/LRO_Safe_Landings_Feature_YouTube.03677_print.jpg", "filename": "LRO_Safe_Landings_Feature_YouTube.03677_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This short video feature describes how LRO's instruments are used collectively to scout for safe landing sites. The crater depicted in this animation is ficticious and only intended for illustrative purposes.For complete transcript, click here.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1024, "height": 768, "pixels": 786432 } } }, { "id": 408825, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3619, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3619/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "A Tour of the Cryosphere 2009", "description": "The cryosphere consists of those parts of the Earth's surface where water is found in solid form, including areas of snow, sea ice, glaciers, permafrost, ice sheets, and icebergs. In these regions, surface temperatures remain below freezing for a portion of each year. Since ice and snow exist relatively close to their melting point, they frequently change from solid to liquid and back again due to fluctuations in surface temperature. Although direct measurements of the cryosphere can be difficult to obtain due to the remote locations of many of these areas, using satellite observations scientists monitor changes in the global and regional climate by observing how regions of the Earth's cryosphere shrink and expand.This animation portrays fluctuations in the cryosphere through observations collected from a variety of satellite-based sensors. The animation begins in Antarctica, showing some unique features of the Antarctic landscape found nowhere else on earth. Ice shelves, ice streams, glaciers, and the formation of massive icebergs can be seen clearly in the flyover of the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica. A time series shows the movement of iceberg B15A, an iceberg 295 kilometers in length which broke off of the Ross Ice Shelf in 2000. Moving farther along the coastline, a time series of the Larsen ice shelf shows the collapse of over 3,200 square kilometers ice since January 2002. As we depart from the Antarctic, we see the seasonal change of sea ice and how it nearly doubles the apparent area of the continent during the winter.From Antarctica, the animation travels over South America showing glacier locations on this mostly tropical continent. We then move further north to observe daily changes in snow cover over the North American continent. The clouds show winter storms moving across the United States and Canada, leaving trails of snow cover behind. In a close-up view of the western US, we compare the difference in land cover between two years: 2003 when the region received a normal amount of snow and 2002 when little snow was accumulated. The difference in the surrounding vegetation due to the lack of spring melt water from the mountain snow pack is evident.As the animation moves from the western US to the Arctic region, the areas affected by permafrost are visible. As time marches forward from March to September, the daily snow and sea ice recede and reveal the vast areas of permafrost surrounding the Arctic Ocean.The animation shows a one-year cycle of Arctic sea ice followed by the mean September minimum sea ice for each year from 1979 through 2008. The superimposed graph of the area of Arctic sea ice at this minimum clearly shows the dramatic decrease in Artic sea ice over the last few years.While moving from the Arctic to Greenland, the animation shows the constant motion of the Arctic polar ice using daily measures of sea ice activity. Sea ice flows from the Arctic into Baffin Bay as the seasonal ice expands southward. As we draw close to the Greenland coast, the animation shows the recent changes in the Jakobshavn glacier. Although Jakobshavn receded only slightly from 1964 to 2001, the animation shows significant recession from 2001 through 2009. As the animation pulls out from Jakobshavn, the effect of the increased flow rate of Greenland costal glaciers is shown by the thinning ice shelf regions near the Greenland coast.This animation shows a wealth of data collected from satellite observations of the cryosphere and the impact that recent cryospheric changes are making on our planet.For more information on the data sets used in this visualization, visit NASA's EOS DAAC website.Note: This animation is an update of the animation 'A Short Tour of the Cryosphere', which is itself an abridged version of the animation 'A Tour of the Cryosphere'. The popularity of the earlier animations and their continuing relevance prompted us to update the datasets in parts of the animation and to remake it in high definition. In certain cases, our experiences in using the earlier work have led us to tweak the presentation of some of the material to make it clearer. Our thanks to Dr. Robert Bindschadler for suggesting and supporting this remake. || ", "release_date": "2009-09-01T18:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2024-10-09T15:44:24.651400-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 496509, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003600/a003619/Tour_Cryosphere_00780.png", "filename": "Tour_Cryosphere_00780.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The complete narrated visualizationThis video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 408826, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4436, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4436/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "GMM-3 Mars Gravity Map", "description": "Scientists have used small fluctuations in the orbits of three NASA spacecraft to map the gravity field of Mars.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || MarsGravityMapYouTube.png (1920x1080) [7.9 MB] || MarsGravityMapYouTube.jpg (1920x1080) [706.6 KB] || APPLE_TV_G2016-003_Mars_Gravity_Map_MASTER_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [51.0 MB] || WEBM_G2016-003_Mars_Gravity_Map_MASTER.webm (960x540) [43.4 MB] || APPLE_TV_G2016-003_Mars_Gravity_Map_MASTER_appletv_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [15.5 MB] || LARGE_MP4_G2016-003_Mars_Gravity_Map_MASTER_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [109.0 MB] || NASA_TV_G2016-003_Mars_Gravity_Map_MASTER.mpeg (1280x720) [362.0 MB] || G2016-003_Mars_Gravity_Map_MASTER_GoogOut.en_US.srt [1.8 KB] || G2016-003_Mars_Gravity_Map_MASTER_GoogOut.en_US.vtt [1.9 KB] || G2016-003_Mars_Gravity_Map_MASTER.mov (1920x1080) [2.9 GB] || ", "release_date": "2016-03-21T12:30:00-04:00", "update_date": "2026-02-27T18:17:17-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 425906, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004400/a004436/SVS4436MarsGravityPreview_searchweb.png", "filename": "SVS4436MarsGravityPreview_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Print-res still of the Mars free-air gravity globe, centered at 90°W. Includes an alpha channel.", "width": 320, "height": 180, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 408827, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4129, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4129/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Earthrise: The 45th Anniversary", "description": "In December of 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first people to leave our home planet and travel to another body in space. But as crew members Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders all later recalled, the most important thing they discovered was Earth.Using photo mosaics and elevation data from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), this video commemorates the 45th anniversary of Apollo 8's historic flight by recreating the moment when the crew first saw and photographed the Earth rising from behind the Moon. Narrator Andrew Chaikin, author of A Man on the Moon, sets the scene for a three-minute visualization of the view from both inside and outside the spacecraft accompanied by the onboard audio of the astronauts.The visualization draws on numerous historical sources, including the actual cloud pattern on Earth from the ESSA-7 satellite and dozens of photographs taken by Apollo 8, and it reveals new, historically significant information about the Earthrise photographs. It has not been widely known, for example, that the spacecraft was rolling when the photos were taken, and that it was this roll that brought the Earth into view. The visualization establishes the precise timing of the roll and, for the first time ever, identifies which window each photograph was taken from.The key to the new work is a set of vertical stereo photographs taken by a camera mounted in the Command Module's rendezvous window and pointing straight down onto the lunar surface. It automatically photographed the surface every 20 seconds. By registering each photograph to a model of the terrain based on LRO data, the orientation of the spacecraft can be precisely determined.Andrew Chaikin's article Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo From Apollo 8? appeared in the January, 2018 issue of Smithsonian magazine. It includes the story of the making of this visualization.A Google Hangout discussion of this visualization between Ernie Wright (creator of the visualization), Andrew Chaikin, John Keller (LRO project scientist), and Aries Keck (NASA media specialist) was held on December 20, 2013. A replay of that hangout is available here.Ernie Wright presented a talk about the making of this animation at the 2014 SIGGRAPH Conference in Vancouver. He also wrote a NASA Wavelength blog entry about Earthrise that includes links to educator resources related to LRO. || ", "release_date": "2013-12-20T10:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-01-05T22:27:37.229660-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 459826, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004100/a004129/video_preview.jpg", "filename": "video_preview.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The full video, with narration by Andrew Chaikin. You can also watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel. For complete transcript, click here.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 408828, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 12117, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12117/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Visualizing the 2017 All-American Eclipse", "description": "Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASAgovVideo YouTube channel.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || sun_earth.0240_print.jpg (1024x576) [41.2 KB] || sun_earth.0240_searchweb.png (320x180) [37.9 KB] || sun_earth.0240_thm.png (80x40) [3.9 KB] || LARGE_MP4_12117_visualizing_2017_eclipseV2_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [98.4 MB] || 12117_visualizing_2017_eclipseV2.mov (1920x1080) [2.6 GB] || YOUTUBE_HQ_12117_visualizing_2017_eclipseV2_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [302.9 MB] || WEBM_12117_visualizing_2017_eclipseV2.webm (960x540) [37.4 MB] || PRORES_B-ROLL_12117_visualizing_2017_eclipseV2_prores.mov (1280x720) [1.3 GB] || 12117_visualizing_2017_eclipseV2.en_US.srt [1.5 KB] || 12117_visualizing_2017_eclipseV2.en_US.vtt [1.5 KB] || 12117_visualizing_2017_eclipseV2_lowres.mp4 (480x272) [13.6 MB] || NASA_PODCAST_12117_visualizing_2017_eclipseV2_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [17.1 MB] || ", "release_date": "2016-04-14T12:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:48:43.369447-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 436253, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012100/a012117/sun_earth.0240_print.jpg", "filename": "sun_earth.0240_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASAgovVideo YouTube channel.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408829, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4253, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4253/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Moon Phase and Libration, from the Other Side", "description": "This narrated video introduces two views of the Moon's far side. 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The conference provides an interdisciplinary educational experience highlighting outstanding achievements in time-based art, scientific visualization, visual effects, real-time graphics, and narrative shorts. Below are contributions to the conference made by members of NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio.", "width": 576, "height": 1024, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408830, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 11218, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11218/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "The Moon's Permanently Shadowed Regions", "description": "As you watch the Moon over the course of a month, you'll notice that different features are illuminated by the Sun at different times. However, there are some parts of the Moon that never see sunlight. These areas are called permanently shadowed regions, and they appear dark because unlike on the Earth, the axis of the Moon is nearly perpendicular to the direction of the sun's light. The result is that the bottoms of certain craters are never pointed toward the Sun, with some remaining dark for over two billion years. However, thanks to new data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we can now see into these dark craters in incredible detail. || ", "release_date": "2013-03-06T11:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:52:20.770205-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 467534, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a011218/G2013-007_Perma_Shadows_MASTER_youtube_hq00502_print.jpg", "filename": "G2013-007_Perma_Shadows_MASTER_youtube_hq00502_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Deep in the craters of the Moon's south pole lurk permanently shadowed regions: areas that have not seen sunlight in over two billion years. Now, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is shedding a new light on some of our satellite's darkest mysteries.For complete transcript, click here.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408831, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 10929, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10929/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "A Narrated Tour of the Moon", "description": "Although the moon has remained largely unchanged during human history, our understanding of it and how it has evolved over time has evolved dramatically. Thanks to new measurements, we have new and unprecedented views of its surface, along with new insight into how it and other rocky planets in our solar system came to look the way they do. See some of the sights and learn more about the moon here! || ", "release_date": "2012-03-14T10:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:53:12.339355-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 478081, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010900/a010929/moon_tour_ipod_lg00027_print.jpg", "filename": "moon_tour_ipod_lg00027_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "4.5 minute flyover tour of the moon. Many of the shots for the narrated tour come from this video.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408832, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4249, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4249/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Greenland Ice Sheet Stratigraphy", "description": "The above movie shows the new 3D map of the age of the Greenland ice sheet, using a collage of live footage and animation to explain how scientists determined the age from data collected by ice-penetrating radar. The full script of the narration is available here. 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The full script of the narration is available here. This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408833, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4306, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4306/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "FROZEN: The Full Story", "description": "On March 27, 2009, NASA released FROZEN, a twelve-minute show about the Earth's frozen regions designed for Science On a Sphere. Science On a Sphere was created by NOAA and displays movies on a spherical screen, which is ideal for a show about the Earth or the planets. The audience can view the show from any side of the sphere and can see any part of the Earth. Making a movie for this system is challenging, and FROZEN was an exciting project to create. Until now, only the \"trailer\" for FROZEN has been available for viewing from our site. Here, for the first time, is an on-line version of the complete show, presented in several different formats that show different aspects of the movie. || ", "release_date": "2015-06-25T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:49:39.173540-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 442247, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004300/a004306/FROZEN_twoglobes_04464.png", "filename": "FROZEN_twoglobes_04464.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This version of FROZEN simulates the experience of two separate viewers on opposite sides of the sphere. Sometimes the two viewers see the same thing, but most of the time they see different parts of the Earth.Complete transcript available.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 408834, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3667, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3667/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Ship Tracks Reveal Pollution's Effects on Clouds", "description": "NASA's MODIS satellite instrument is revealing that humans may be changing our planet's brightness. Pollution in the atmosphere creates smaller, brighter cloud droplets that reflect more sunlight back to space and may have a slight impact on global warming.This narrated visualization illustrates how we can study the effect against a clean backdrop by looking for zones of pollution in otherwise pristine air - in this case the North Pacific Ocean near the Aleutian islands. On an overcast day, the clouds look uniform. However, MODIS' sesor reveals a different picture - long skinny trails of brighter clouds hidden within. As ships travel across the ocean, pollution in the ships' exhaust create more cloud drops that are smaller in size, resulting in even brighter clouds. On clear days, ships can actually create new clouds. Water vapor condenses around the particles of pollution, forming streamers of clouds as the ships travel on. The ship tracks themselves are too small to impact global temperatures, but they help us understand how larger pollution sources such as industrial sites or agricultural burning might be changing clouds on a larger scale. || ", "release_date": "2010-06-03T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:54:12.874954-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 492476, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003600/a003667/ShipTracks_1920x1080.2428.jpg", "filename": "ShipTracks_1920x1080.2428.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Approaching the region of Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 408835, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 12221, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12221/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Tracking Volcanic Ash With Satellites", "description": "Data from the Suomi NPP satellite is used by NASA scientists to map the full three-dimensional structure of volcanic clouds, allowing a more accurate forecast of where the volcanic ash is spreading. The information will be used by air traffic management to re-route flights around the hazardous ash clouds, which can damage airplane engines.Complete transcript available.Music: \"Dangerous Clouds\" by Guy & Zab Skornik [SACEM]Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || 12221_Volcanic_ash_MASTER_youtube_hq.00596_print.jpg (1024x576) [66.2 KB] || 12221_Volcanic_ash_MASTER_youtube_hq.00596_searchweb.png (180x320) [43.0 KB] || 12221_Volcanic_ash_MASTER_youtube_hq.00596_web.png (320x180) [43.0 KB] || 12221_Volcanic_ash_MASTER_youtube_hq.00596_thm.png (80x40) [4.0 KB] || 12221_Volcanic_ash_MASTER_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [60.8 MB] || 12221_Volcanic_ash_MASTER.webm (960x540) [46.9 MB] || 12221_Volcanic_ash_MASTER_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [60.8 MB] || 12221_Volcanic_ash_MASTER_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [21.9 MB] || 12221_Volcanic_ash_captions.en_US.srt [2.2 KB] || 12221_Volcanic_ash_captions.en_US.vtt [2.2 KB] || 12221_Volcanic_ash_MASTER_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [149.2 MB] || 12221_Volcanic_ash_MASTER_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [119.1 MB] || 12221_Volcanic_ash_MASTER.mpeg (1280x720) [394.4 MB] || 12221_Volcanic_ash_MASTER_prores.mov (1280x720) [1.6 GB] || ", "release_date": "2016-05-12T13:30:00-04:00", "update_date": "2024-10-06T23:40:55.466912-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 425055, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012200/a012221/CalbucoEruption_Ash-SO2.2710_print.jpg", "filename": "CalbucoEruption_Ash-SO2.2710_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Visualization of results from a supercomputer model of ash and sulfur dioxide spreading from an eruption of the Calbuco volcano in April 2015. The supercomputer combines the physics and chemistry of the atmosphere with data from the NASA/NOAA/DoD Suomi NPP satellite to model the full three-dimensional structure of the volcanic cloud.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408836, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4430, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4430/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "JPSS Multi Mission Concept of Operations", "description": "The purpose of this visualization is to aid in establishing a shared understanding about key concepts, complexities, and unique features of a multi-mission JPSS. Our approach to achieving this goal for the visualization is to introduce and build on a sequence of key concepts i.e. orbit, observation, communication, and constellation. Each is presented as a short episode that tells a JPSS concept of operations (ConOPs) “story” when shown in sequence. Narration by Robert Harberts (GST)Complete transcript available. || jpss_complete_narrated_1080p_print.jpg (1024x576) [86.7 KB] || jpss_complete_narrated_1080p.webm (1920x1080) [51.5 MB] || jpss_complete_narrated_1080p.mp4 (1920x1080) [196.4 MB] || jpss_complete_narrated_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [600.4 MB] || jpss_complete_narrated_1080p.mp4.hwshow [194 bytes] || ", "release_date": "2016-03-03T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-01-05T22:59:05.463939-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 441554, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004400/a004430/jpss_edited_10_1080p02280_print.jpg", "filename": "jpss_edited_10_1080p02280_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Complete visualization (Orbit, Collection, Communication, Constellations) - no narration. This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408837, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 2133, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2133/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Capitol Zoom - SIGGRAPH 2001 Final Submission", "description": "Capital Zoom is a seamless, cloudless zoom-in from a global view down to the nation's Capitol building that is composed entirely of satellite data. This data includes IKONOS 1 meter data, Landsat-7 15/30 meter data, Terra/MODIS 250 meter data, and Terra/MODIS 8 kilometer data. The visualization first zoomsin seamlessly, then zooms out/in showing where the different data set layers reside.This visualization has been accepted to SIGGRAPH 2001. It includes narration. This visualization was created using Maya for motion control, Renderman forrendering, IDL for pre-processing of the data, Imagine for image registration, and Photoshop for color matching. || ", "release_date": "2001-05-08T12:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:58:06.188656-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 532966, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002100/a002133/a002133_pre.jpg", "filename": "a002133_pre.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "A narrated zoom from space to the Capitol Building in Washington DC, followed by a zoom back out to space showing the area covered by each of the four data sets used in the animation. This animation was chosen for the Animation Theater at SIGGRAPH 2001.Complete transcript available.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 320, "height": 240, "pixels": 76800 } } }, { "id": 408838, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4060, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4060/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Antarctic Bedrock", "description": "An Animation of Seasonal Vegetation and its effect on Earth's Global Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide", "description": "In this animation, NASA instruments show the seasonal cycle of vegetation and the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The animation begins on January 1, when the northern hemisphere is in winter and the southern hemisphere is in summer. At this time of year, the bulk of living vegetation, shown in green, hovers around the equator and below it, in the southern hemisphere.As the animation plays forward through mid-April, the concentration of carbon dioxide, shown in orange-yellow, in the middle part of Earth's lowest atmospheric layer, the troposphere, increases and spreads throughout the northern hemisphere, reaching a maximum around May. This blooming effect of carbon dioxide follows the seasonal changes that occur in northern latitude ecosystems, in which deciduous trees lose their leaves, resulting in a net release of carbon dioxide through a process called respiration. Carbon dioxide is also released in early spring as soils begin to warm. Almost 10 percent of atmospheric carbon dioxide passes through soils each year.After April, the northern hemisphere moves into late spring and summer and plants begin to grow, reaching a peak in the late summer. The process of plant photosynthesis removes carbon dioxide from the air. The animation shows how carbon dioxide is scrubbed out of the atmosphere by the large volume of new and growing vegetation. Following the peak in vegetation, the drawdown of atmospheric carbon dioxide due to photosynthesis becomes apparent, particularly over the boreal forests.Note that there is roughly a three-month lag between the state of vegetation at Earth's surface and its effect on carbon dioxide in the middle troposphere.Data like these give scientists a new opportunity to better understand the relationships between carbon dioxide in Earth's middle troposphere and the seasonal cycle of vegetation near the surface.Creating the AnimationThis animation was created with data taken from two NASA spaceborne instruments. The concentration of carbon dioxide data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), a weather and climate instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua spacecraft, is overlain on measurements of vegetation index from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument, also on NASA's Aqua spacecraft, to better understand how photosynthesis and respiration influences the atmospheric carbon dioxide cycle over the globe. The animation runs from January through December and repeats. The AIRS tropospheric carbon dioxide seasonal cycle values were made by averaging AIRS data collected between 2003 and 2010, from which the annual carbon dioxide growth trend of 2 parts per million per year has been removed. For example, the data used for January 1 is actually an average of eight years of AIRS carbon dioxide data taken each year on January 1. The vegetation values were made using data averaged over a four-year period, from 2003 to 2006.Further DetailAIRS uses infrared technology to determine the concentration of atmospheric water vapor and several important trace gases as well as information about temperature and clouds. AIRS orbits Earth from pole-to-pole at an altitude of 438 miles (705 kilometers), measuring Earth's infrared spectrum in 3,278 channels spanning a wavelength range from 3.74 microns to 15.4 microns. Originally designed to improve weather forecasts, AIRS has improved operational five-day weather forecasts more than any other single instrument over the past decade. AIRS has also been found to be sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide in the middle troposphere, at an altitude of 5 to 10 kilometers or 3 to 6 miles. AIRS is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., under contract to NASA. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. For further information, access the AIRS projectThe MODIS instrument is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. For further information, access the MODIS project. || ", "release_date": "2012-07-08T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2024-10-09T00:02:20.883006-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 474848, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003900/a003947/airsc02_land_connectionV070244.jpg", "filename": "airsc02_land_connectionV070244.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The concentration of CO2 measured by AIRS is overlain on measurements of vegetation index from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiaometer (MODIS), also on the Aqua spacecraft, in an effort to understand the influence of photosynthesis and respiration on the atmospheric CO2 cycle over the globe. The AIRS tropospheric CO2 seasonal cycle displayed is an average over 8 years of AIRS data, from which the annual growth trend of 2 ppm/year has been removed. The animation shows the buildup of tropospheric CO2 in the Northern Hemisphere with a maximum around May. The maximum in the vegetation cycle follows, occurring in the late summer. Following the peak in vegetation, the drawdown of atmospheric CO2 due to photosynthesis is apparent, particularly over the Boreal Forests.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1278, "height": 719, "pixels": 918882 } } } ], "extra_data": {} }, { "id": 371077, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/svsyoutube-candidates/#media_group_371077", "widget": "Tile gallery", "title": "Trent Schindler's Visualization Choices", "caption": "", "description": "", "items": [ { "id": 408906, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4044, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4044/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "The Distributed Water Balance of the Nile Basin", "description": "This visualization shows how satellite data and NASA models are being applied to study the hydrology of the Nile basin. The Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) Multisensor Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) provides three-hourly estimates of rainfall rate across much of the globe. Here we see the seasonal cycle of monthly precipitation derived from TMPA for Africa, including the Nile Basin. The annual migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) from the Nile Equatorial Lakes region around Lake Victoria, source of the White Nile, northward into Sudan and the highlands of Ethiopia, headwaters of the Blue Nile, and back is evident in the seasonal cycle in precipitation. This precipitation cycle drives flow through the Nile River system. The Nile basin, however, is intensely evaporative, and the majority of the water that falls as rain leaves the basin as evaporation rather than river flow—either from the humid headwaters regions or from large reservoirs and irrigation developments in Egypt and Sudan. The Atmosphere Land Exchange Inverse (ALEXI) evapotranspiration product, developed by USDA scientists, uses satellite data to map daily evapotranspiration across the entire Nile basin, providing unprecedented information on water consumption. The balance of rainfall and evapotranspiration can be seen in seasonal patterns of soil moisture, as simulated by the NASA Nile Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS), which merges satellite information with a physically-based land surface model to simulate variability in soil moisture—a critical variable for rainfed agriculture and natural ecosystems. Finally, the twin satellites of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) can be used to monitor variability in total water storage, including surface water, soil moisture, and groundwater. The annual cycle in GRACE estimates of water storage anomalies clearly shows the seasonal movement of water storage due to precipitation patterns and the movement of surface waters from headwaters regions into the wetlands of South Sudan and the reservoirs of the lower Nile basin.The Nile is the longest river in the world and its basin is shared by 11 countries. Reliable, spatially distributed estimates of hydrologic storage and fluxes can provide critical information for water managers contending with multiple resource demands, a variable and changing climate, and the risk of damaging floods and droughts. NASA observations and modeling systems offer unique capabilities to meet these information needs. || ", "release_date": "2013-02-27T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2024-10-09T00:03:21.541093-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 467905, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004000/a004044/nile.1000.jpg", "filename": "nile.1000.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Nile Basin Water Balance", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 408908, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3849, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3849/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Antarctic Ice Flow Charted From Space", "description": "Harsh snows have blanketed Antarctica for so long that the continent has built up an ice sheet a mile thick from bedrock to surface in most places. Despite the ice cap's grip on the rocky landmass below, friction can only hold back the ice so much. A new, first-of-its-kind map from NASA reveals icy Antarctica as a landscape of constant movement. NASA scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and UC Irvine have charted this movement for the first time, using Canadian, Japanese and European satellite data to create a record of the speed and direction of ice flow across the entire continent. The map reveals glaciers and tributaries in patterned flows stretching hundreds of miles inland, like a system of rivers and creeks. Slow-moving flows found in largely unexplored East Antarctica defied previous understanding of ice migration. And scientists discovered a ridge that splits Antarctica from east to west. Explore the visualizations below to see the new benchmark map scientists can use to study the extent and speed of changes to the largest ice sheet in the world. || ", "release_date": "2011-08-25T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2024-10-06T22:02:58.992693-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 483992, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003800/a003849/antarctica_flows_1_00120_1024x576.jpg", "filename": "antarctica_flows_1_00120_1024x576.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "A new map changes our understanding of how ice flows across Antarctica.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408909, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4160, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4160/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Stratospheric Ozone Intrusion", "description": "Events called stratospheric ozone intrusions occur most often in spring and early summer, and can raise ground-level ozone concentrations in some areas to potentially unhealthy levels.This visualization shows one such event that occurred on April 6, 2012. On that day, a fast-moving area of low pressure moved northeast across states in the Western U.S., clipping western and northern Colorado. Ozone-rich stratospheric air descended, folding into tropospheric air near the ground. Winds took hold of the air mass and pushed it in all directions, bringing stratospheric ozone to the ground in Colorado and along the Northern Front Range.Atmospheric scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., set out to see if the Goddard Earth Observing System Model, Version 5 (GEOS-5) Chemistry-Climate Model could replicate stratospheric ozone intrusions at 25-kilometer (16-mile) resolution. High-resolution models are possible due to computing power now capable of simulating the chemistry and movement of gasses and pollutants around the atmosphere and calculating their interactions.They show that indeed, the model could replicate small-scale features, including finger-like filaments, within the apron of ozone-rich stratospheric air that descended over Colorado on April 6, 2012. || ", "release_date": "2014-04-10T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:51:01.010489-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 456292, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004100/a004160/stratos_ozone_intrusion.0001_print.jpg", "filename": "stratos_ozone_intrusion.0001_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Stratospheric Ozone Intrusion Short Version", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408910, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4412, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4412/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "NASA Images Show Human Fingerprint on Global Air Quality – Release Materials", "description": "This video provides an overview of the study findings. An HD version of this video is available here: Human Fingerprint on Global Air Quality || 12096-MASTER_appletv_print.jpg (1024x576) [139.8 KB] || 12096-MASTER_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [60.8 MB] || 12096-MASTER_appletv.webm (1280x720) [13.0 MB] || ", "release_date": "2015-12-17T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-02-02T00:08:09.068083-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 436910, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004400/a004412/global_abs_2005_print.jpg", "filename": "global_abs_2005_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This global map shows the concentration of nitrogen dioxide in the atmosphere as detected by the Ozone Monitoring Instrument aboard the Aura satellite, averaged over 2005.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408912, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4272, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4272/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "What Would have Happened to the Ozone Layer if Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) had not been Regulated? 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The jet is created by the convergence of cold air masses descending from the Arctic and rising warm air from the tropics. Deep troughs and steep ridges emerge as the denser cold air sinks and deflects warm air regions north, giving the jet stream its wavy appearance. This pattern propagates across the mid-latitudes of North America, Europe and Asia, as pockets of cold air sporadically creep down from the Arctic - creating contrasting waves and flows that accelerate eastward due to Earth's rotation. Running from June 10 to July 8 of 1988, the visualization below uses weather and climate observations from NASA's MERRA dataset to model nearly a month of the jet stream's whirling journey over North America. || ", "release_date": "2011-10-03T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-03-17T00:01:14.231989-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 483187, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003800/a003864/jetstream.00600.jpg", "filename": "jetstream.00600.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Polar JetThis video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1280, "height": 720, "pixels": 921600 } } }, { "id": 408914, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3850, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3850/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Extreme Russian Fires and Pakistan Floods Linked Meteorologically", "description": "In the summer of 2010, months of record-breaking drought and temperatures culminated with a rash of fires that ravaged western Russia for weeks. Temperatures in Moscow soared to an average of 104 °F (40 °C) during late July and early August — more than 18 °F (10 °C) above normal. Hundreds of fires broke out producing some $15 million in damages. The heat and smoke killed about 56,000 people, making the Russian wildfires fires one of the most lethal natural disasters of the year.Meanwhile, some 930 kilometers (1,500 miles) away, relentless rainfall was simultaneously pounding Pakistan and generating intense flooding. The Pakistan Meteorological Department reported nationwide rain totals 70 percent above normal in July and 102 percent above normal in August.New research conducted by William Lau, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., suggests the two seemingly disconnected events were actually closely linked.Under normal circumstances, the jet stream pushes weather fronts through Eurasia in four or five days, but something unusual happened in July of 2010. A large-scale, stagnant weather pattern — known as an Omega blocking event — slowed the Rossby wave over Russia and prevented the normal progression of weather systems from west to east.As a result, a large region of high-pressure formed over Russia trapping a hot, dry air mass over the area. As the high lingered, the land surface dried and the normal transfer of moisture from the soil to the atmosphere slowed. Precipitation ceased, vegetation dried out, and the region became a taiga tinderbox.Meanwhile, the blocking pattern created unusual downstream wind patterns over Pakistan. Areas of low pressure on the leading edge of the Rossby wave formed in response to the high, pulling cold, dry Siberian air into lower latitudes.This cold air from Siberia clashed with warm, moist air arriving over Pakistan from the Bay of Bengal as part of the monsoon. There's nothing unusual about moisture moving north over India toward the Himalayas. It's a normal part of the monsoon. However, in this case, the unusual wind patterns associated with the blocking high brought upper level air disturbances farther south than typical, which in effect helped shifted the entire monsoon system north and west.This brought heavy monsoon rains — centered over parts of India — squarely over the northern part of Pakistan, a region ill-prepared to handle large amounts of rain. || ", "release_date": "2011-08-30T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-01-05T22:04:20.795506-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 483945, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003800/a003850/teleconnection.00001_ipad_poster_frame.jpg", "filename": "teleconnection.00001_ipad_poster_frame.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Animation of Teleconnection Between Russia and PakistanThis video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408915, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3638, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3638/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Correlation Between Tropospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration and Seasonal Variation of the Biosphere", "description": "This animation shows the correspondence between the drawdown of tropospheric carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere, and the seasonal variation of the biosphere of the earth. The pattern of white squares indicates regions where the concentration of tropospheric CO2 is higher than the trend, while regions devoid of the squares are areas where the CO2 concentrations are lower than the trend. The trend was calculated by a least-squares line fit to a moving 8-day global average of CO2 concentration provided by the AIRS instrument on the Aqua satellite, and increases over the course of the animation (Sept. 2002-Sept. 2006) from 374 ppm to 383 ppm. The biosphere data is provided by the SeaWiFS instrument aboard the SeaStar satellite.During spring and summer months, the consumption of CO2 through plant respiration increases, reducing the concentration of CO2 (the white squares) over the more productive areas. In the animation, this is seen as a tendency for the CO2 concentration to drop below the trend over areas of deeper green. The cycle is especially apparent in the Northern Hemisphere. || ", "release_date": "2009-10-09T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2024-06-23T22:01:41.276163-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 495917, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003600/a003638/carbon_cycle_grid_big_trend.0001.jpg", "filename": "carbon_cycle_grid_big_trend.0001.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "CO2/biosphere correlation, no dates", "width": 1280, "height": 720, "pixels": 921600 } } }, { "id": 408911, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3628, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3628/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Galapagos Islands Flyby", "description": "Straddling the equator approximately 1000 kilometers to the west of the South American mainland, the Galapagos Islands lie within the heart of the equatorial current system. Rising from the sea floor, the volcanic islands of the Galapagos are set on top of a large submarine platform. The main portion of the Galapagos platform is relatively flat and less than 1000 meters in depth. The steepest slopes are found along the western and southern flanks of the platform with a gradual slope towards the east. The interactions of the Galapagos and the oceanic currents create vastly different environmental regimes which not only isolates one part of the Archipelago from the other but allows penguins to live along the equator on the western part of the Archipelago and tropical corals around the islands to the north. The islands are relatively new in geologic terms with the youngest islands in the west still exhibiting periodic eruptions from their massive volcanic craters. || ", "release_date": "2009-07-17T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:54:43.234280-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 497318, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003600/a003628/galapagos_large.0600.jpg", "filename": "galapagos_large.0600.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Animated flyover of the Galapagos IslandsThis video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1280, "height": 720, "pixels": 921600 } } }, { "id": 408916, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3586, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3586/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "What Would have Happened to the Ozone Layer if Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) had not been Regulated?", "description": "Led by NASA Goddard scientist Paul Newman, a team of atmospheric chemists simulated 'what might have been' if chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and similar ozone-depleting chemicals were not banned through the Montreal Protocol. The comprehensive model — including atmospheric chemical effects, wind changes, and solar radiation changes — simulated what would happen to global concentrations of stratospheric ozone if CFCs were continually added to the atmosphere.The visualizations below present two cases, from several different viewing positions: the 'world avoided' case, where the rate of CFC emission into the atmosphere is assumed to be that of the period before regulation, and the 'projected' case, which assumes the current rate of emission, post-regulation. Both cases extrapolate to the year 2065. || ", "release_date": "2009-03-17T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-01-05T22:01:59.106242-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 483597, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003500/a003586/ozone_side_by_side_720p_web.png", "filename": "ozone_side_by_side_720p_web.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Comparison between projected and world-avoided cases.", "width": 320, "height": 180, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 408917, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4016, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4016/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Global Precipitiation Measurement Core Satellite Instruments", "description": "The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission is co-led by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). NASA and JAXA will provide a GPM Core satellite to serve as a reference for precipitation measurements made by a constellation of satellites. The GPM Core satellite carries two instruments: a state-of-the-art radiometer called the GPM Microwave Imager (GMI) and the first space-borne Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR), which sees the 3D structure of falling rain and snow. The DPR and GMI work in concert to provide a unique database that will be used to improve the accuracy and consistency of measurements from all partner satellites, which will then be combined into the uniform global precipitation dataset. This animation shows the scanning capabilities of the GMI and DPR onboard the GPM Core satellite. Heavy rainfall is shown in red and light rainfall in blue. The DPR shows 3D precipitation in a midlatitude storm from two overlapping swaths. The Ka-band frequency scans across a region of 78 miles (125 kilometers) and is nested within the wider scan of the Ku-band frequency of 147 miles (245 kilometers). JAXA and Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) built the DPR. The GMI, shown as the flat precipitation values, constantly scans a region 550 miles (885 kilometers) across. The Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation built the GMI under contract with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The GPM Core observatory is currently being built and tested at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. It is scheduled to launch from Tanegashima space center in Japan in early 2014. || ", "release_date": "2012-12-03T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:52:34.129716-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 470308, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004000/a004016/GPM_instruments.0850.jpg", "filename": "GPM_instruments.0850.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "GPM InstrumentsThis video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1280, "height": 720, "pixels": 921600 } } }, { "id": 408918, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3623, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3623/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Groundwater Depletion in India Revealed by GRACE", "description": "Scientists using data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) have found that the groundwater beneath Northern India has been receding by as much as one foot per year over the past decade. After examining many environmental and climate factors, the team of hydrologists led by Matt Rodell of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. concluded that the loss is almost entirely due to human consumption.Groundwater comes from the natural percolation of precipitation and other surface waters down through Earth's soil and rock, accumulating in aquifers - cavities and layers of porous rock, gravel, sand, or clay. In some subterranean reservoirs, the water may be thousands to millions of years old; in others, water levels decline and rise again naturally each year. Groundwater levels do not respond to changes in weather as rapidly as lakes, streams, and rivers do. So when groundwater is pumped for irrigation or other uses, recharge to the original levels can take months or years. More than 109 cubic km (26 cubic miles) of groundwater disappeared from the region's aquifers between 2002 and 2008 — double the capacity of India's largest surface water reservoir, the Upper Wainganga, and triple that of Lake Mead, the largest manmade reservoir in the U.S. The animation shown here depicts the change in groundwater levels as measured each November between 2002 to 2008. || ", "release_date": "2009-08-12T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2024-10-09T15:45:12.759437-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 496796, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003600/a003623/grace_smooth_idl33.0350.jpg", "filename": "grace_smooth_idl33.0350.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Groundwater depletion, without color bar", "width": 1280, "height": 720, "pixels": 921600 } } }, { "id": 408907, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4007, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4007/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Ground-Penetrating Radar Measurements of Antarctic Ice Sheet", "description": "This visualization presents data collected by the 2010 Satellite Era Accumulation Traverse (SEAT). Accumulation, the amount of snow that falls on an ice sheet, is one of the most important inputs for determining the mass balance of an ice sheet. There are, however, relatively few direct accumulation measurements because the most precise measurements come from ice cores at a single point location.Recently, new large-bandwidth, very-high frequency radars have been developed and used over the ice sheets to image internal layers in the near surface which represent about the past 30-40 years of accumulation. The SEAT traverses are making the link between near surface radar layers and ice cores by collecting both simultaneously across the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide region. || ", "release_date": "2012-12-12T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:52:31.724499-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 470054, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004000/a004007/traverse.0778.jpg", "filename": "traverse.0778.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Antarctic traverse radarThis video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } } ], "extra_data": {} }, { "id": 371078, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/svsyoutube-candidates/#media_group_371078", "widget": "Tile gallery", "title": "Greg Shirah's Visualization Choices", "caption": "", "description": "", "items": [ { "id": 408919, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4274, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4274/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "NASA Earth Observing Fleet (February 2015)", "description": "A newer version of this visualization can be found here. || Orbital Fleet including SMAP without TRMM || fleet_withSMAP_noTRMM.2150_print.jpg (1024x576) [146.7 KB] || fleet_withSMAP_noTRMM_1920x1080_60fps.webm (1920x1080) [10.0 MB] || fleet_withSMAP_noTRMM_1920x1080_60fps.mp4 (1920x1080) [56.4 MB] || fleet_withSMAP_noTRMM (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || fleet_withSMAP_noTRMM_640x360_30fps.m4v (640x360) [15.1 MB] || without_TRMM (9600x3240) [0 Item(s)] || without_TRMM-ppm [0 Item(s)] || ", "release_date": "2015-02-26T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-02-02T22:20:54.985585-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 446120, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004200/a004274/fleet_withSMAP_noTRMM.2150_print.jpg", "filename": "fleet_withSMAP_noTRMM.2150_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Orbital Fleet including SMAP without TRMM", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408920, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3958, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3958/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "OSCAR Ocean Currents with Velocity", "description": "This visualization shows OSCAR (Ocean Surface Current Analysis Real-time) ocean currents colored by current velocities. OSCAR data (produced by Earth & Space Research and distributed through NOAA and PO.DAAC) is derived from observed satellite altimetry and wind vector data. The visualization runs from January 1, 2008 through July 27, 2012. Blues are slow currents, greens currents are about 0.5 meters per second, and red currents are about 1 meter per second. This visualization was rendered in a variety of sizes from standard 1080p HD to 4k to 6840x3420. The higher resolution versions were rendered for very high resolution display technologies such as hyperwalls and cinema projectors.For more information about the NOAA/NASA OSCAR projects, click here.These visualizations were developed, in part, for display at the \"20 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry\" Symposium in Venice, Italy in September 2012 and for the Fall 2012 American Geophysical Union conference in December 2012. || ", "release_date": "2012-09-24T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2024-10-13T22:10:48.978211-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 473286, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003900/a003958/oscar_and_grid_cropped.png", "filename": "oscar_and_grid_cropped.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "A cropped region in the Pacific illustrating the distribution of the actual flow vector data points relative to the flow curves. The white dots represent locations where the OSCAR model defines the ocean current directions. Locations in between are interpolated.", "width": 320, "height": 180, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 408921, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3912, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3912/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Global Sea Surface Currents and Temperature", "description": "This visualization shows sea surface current flows. The flows are colored by corresponding sea surface temperature data. This visualization is rendered for display on very high resolution devices like hyperwalls or for print media.This visualization was produced using model output from the joint MIT/JPL project entitled Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase II (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. The ECCO2 model simulates ocean flows at all depths, but only surface flows are used in this visualization. || ", "release_date": "2012-03-16T10:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-02-18T00:01:26.447913-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 479018, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003900/a003912/flat_global_ecco2_2028x1024.25000.jpg", "filename": "flat_global_ecco2_2028x1024.25000.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Global sea surface currents colored by temperature. These are the assembled (contiguous) versions of the animation. There are several resolutions to choose from, some are cropped for various purposes. The 6840x3420 version is the complete, full resolution visualization at the appropriate 2x1 aspect ratio and has not been cropped or resized. The time range for these visualizations is from 2007-03-25T12:00Z to 2008-03-03T12:00Z.", "width": 2048, "height": 1024, "pixels": 2097152 } } }, { "id": 408922, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4287, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4287/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Major Hurricane Drought: Nine Years Without a Major Hurricane Making US Landfall", "description": "Hurricane tracks from 1980 through 2014. Green tracks did not make landfall in US; yellow tracks made landfall but were not major hurricanes at the time; red tracks made landfall and were major hurricanes.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || final_comp.2574_print.jpg (1024x576) [64.4 KB] || final_comp.2574_searchweb.png (320x180) [51.3 KB] || final_comp.webm (1920x1080) [6.2 MB] || final_comp.mp4 (1920x1080) [7.9 MB] || final_comp (1920x1080) [64.0 KB] || 2015_final_comp (1920x1080) [64.0 KB] || final_comp.m4v (640x360) [4.2 MB] || ", "release_date": "2015-05-13T13:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:49:43.593343-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 443458, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004200/a004287/final_comp.2574_print.jpg", "filename": "final_comp.2574_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Hurricane tracks from 1980 through 2014. Green tracks did not make landfall in US; yellow tracks made landfall but were not major hurricanes at the time; red tracks made landfall and were major hurricanes.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408923, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3927, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3927/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "ICESCAPE Mission Measures High Chlorophyll-a Under the Ice", "description": "ICESCAPE is a multi-year NASA mission to study biogeochemical and ecological impacts of climate change in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas in the Arctic. During 2011, the ICESCAPE mission acquired data while sailing on the US Coast Guard Cutter Healy. This visualization shows both the technique used by the ICESCAPE mission to take data measurements as well as some of the data that was taken.The visualization shows the ICESCAPE ship's path through the Chukchi and Beaufort seas north of Alaska from July 3, 2011 through July 8, 2011. The ship stops and takes measurements along the way. The measurements are taken by canisters lowered to various depths that sample the water. The measurement depths range from 1.8 meters to 149.3 meters below sea level. The sets of measurements are broken into two transects. The first transect is the trip out into the ice. The second transect is the trip back. Topography (above sea level) is exaggerated 10 times. Bathymetry (below sea level) is exaggerated 200 times in order differentiate the measurements.The colors of the measurements (i.e,. stations) correspond to the color bar below which represent chlorophyll-a concentrations. Measurements that are depicted by spheres were acquired while the ship was in open water while measurements depicted by cubes were acquired when the ship was in ice. As data is collected, a wall of interpolated data is generated.An important finding of this research was that high concentrations of chlorophyll-a were found under the ice. || ", "release_date": "2012-06-07T12:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-01-05T22:11:35.204584-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 477726, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003900/a003927/icescape_pullback02.1600.jpg", "filename": "icescape_pullback02.1600.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Pullback showing transects", "width": 1280, "height": 720, "pixels": 921600 } } }, { "id": 408924, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4192, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4192/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Mars Fleet and Comet Siding Spring", "description": "This visualization shows NASA’s fleet of Mars orbiters, landers, and rovers during the planet’s close encounter with Comet Siding Spring. C/2013 A1, better known as Comet Siding Spring, will make a remarkably close pass of Mars on October 19, 2014. At closest approach, Comet Siding Spring will come within 82,000 miles of the Red Planet – just one-third of the distance from the Earth to the Moon. During the flyby, NASA will position its Mars fleet both to protect it from comet dust, and to make observations of the comet and its effects on the upper atmosphere of Mars. || ", "release_date": "2014-10-09T14:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:50:27.265515-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 452942, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004100/a004192/mars_fleet06_blur180.10200_print.jpg", "filename": "mars_fleet06_blur180.10200_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Several landers and orbiting spacraft are shown followed by their position relative to comet Siding Spring", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408925, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3975, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3975/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Shifting Distribution of Northern Hemisphere Summer Temperature Anomalies, 1951-2011", "description": "This bell curve graph shows how the distribution of Northern Hemisphere summer temperature anomalies has shifted toward an increase in hot summers. The seasonal mean temperature for the entire base period of 1951-1980 is plotted at the top of the bell curve. Decreasing in frequency to the right are what are defined as \"hot\" anomalies (between 1 and 2 standard deviations from the norm), \"very hot\" anomalies (between 2 and 3 standard deviations) and \"extremely hot\" anomalies (greater than 3 standard deviations). The anomalies fall off to the left in mirror-image categories of \"cold, \"very cold\" and \"extremely cold.\" The range between the .43 and -.43 standard deviation marks represent \"normal\" temperatures. As the graph moves forward in time, the bell curve shifts to the right, representing an increase in the frequency of the various hot anomalies. It also gets wider and shorter, representing a wider range of temperature extremes. As the graph moves beyond 1980, the temperatures are still compared to the seasonal mean of the 1951-1980 base period, so that as it reaches the 21st century, there is a far greater frequency of temperatures that once fell 3 standard deviations beyond the mean. As the graphic indicates, each bell curve shown through the time series represents the distribution of anomalies over an 11-year period. || ", "release_date": "2012-08-04T15:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:52:52.042557-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 473513, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003900/a003975/bell_final_comp.1300.jpg", "filename": "bell_final_comp.1300.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Animated bell curveThis video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 408926, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4399, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4399/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "A Quarter Century US Forest Disturbance History from Landsat – the NAFD-NEX Products", "description": "Visualization showing forest change in various locations from 1986 to 2010This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || annual_forest43.04000_print.jpg (1024x576) [253.2 KB] || annual_forest43.04000_searchweb.png (180x320) [129.5 KB] || annual_forest43.04000_thm.png (80x40) [7.7 KB] || 1920x1080_16x9_60p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || annual_forest43_1920x1080p60.webm (1920x1080) [23.2 MB] || annual_forest43_1920x1080p60.mp4 (1920x1080) [228.8 MB] || 9600x3240_16x9_30p (9600x3240) [0 Item(s)] || 3840x2160_16x9_60p (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || annual_forest43_4399.key [233.2 MB] || annual_forest43_4399.pptx [230.6 MB] || annual_forest43_4k_2160p60.mp4 (3840x2160) [825.7 MB] || 4399_annual_forest43_4k_cbar_MP4.mov (3840x2160) [14.4 GB] || annual.hwshow [55 bytes] || ", "release_date": "2015-11-30T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-01-05T22:57:22.281358-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 437900, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004300/a004399/annual_forest43.04000_print.jpg", "filename": "annual_forest43.04000_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Visualization showing forest change in various locations from 1986 to 2010This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408927, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4154, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4154/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Early Spring Frost-Free Regions: Comparing 1950s and 2010s", "description": "These visualizations show observational evidence that the growing season (climatalogical spring) is occurring earlier in the northen hemisphere. Scientists analyze recorded ground temperatures throughout each season and determine the earliest frost-free dates for each location every year. The earliest frost-free date in a growing season often does not correspond to the northern hemisphere's Spring equinox (about March 20), which is the astronomical first day of Spring.The visualziations below show frost-free regions for March 20 and April 20. The regions colored in light green are the frost-free regions averaged from 1950 through 1952. The darker green regions that fade on are the additional areas covered by the frost-free regions averaged from 2009 through 2011. More area is frost-free in the each of the 2009-2011 averages compared to the 1950-1952 averages. || ", "release_date": "2014-03-19T17:45:00-04:00", "update_date": "2024-10-09T00:04:19.457590-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 457146, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004100/a004154/spring_america_march.1400.jpg", "filename": "spring_america_march.1400.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "March 20 frost-free regions over North America. Light green is the 1950-1952 average, darker green is the additional area for the 2009-2011 average.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 408928, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4270, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4270/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Megadroughts in U.S. West Projected to be Worst of the Millennium", "description": "Soil moisture (surface down to 30cm) from 1950 to 2095 based on a 10 year moving average of 17 CMIP5 models using a high future emissions scenario (RCP 8.5). 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The time period for this visualization is 16 February 2005 through 16 January 2006. For each second that passes in the visualization, about 2.75 days pass in the simulation. The colors of the flows represent their depths. The white flows are near the surface while deeper flows are more blue.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.This visualization was created in support of the 2011 UNESCO conference in Paris, France. || ", "release_date": "2011-02-10T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2024-10-09T00:00:58.656626-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 487887, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003800/a003820/med_final_03.03000.jpg", "filename": "med_final_03.03000.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Ocean current flows in the MediterraneanThis video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } } ], "extra_data": {} }, { "id": 371079, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/svsyoutube-candidates/#media_group_371079", "widget": "Card gallery", "title": "Cindy Starr's Visualization Choices", "caption": "", "description": "", "items": [ { "id": 408930, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4440, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4440/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Arctic Sea Ice Maximum - 2016", "description": "An animation of the Arctic sea ice from September 7th, 2015 through March 24th, 2016 with datesThis video is also available on our YouTube channel. || Arctic_sea_ice_2016.1499_print.jpg (1024x576) [105.4 KB] || Arctic_sea_ice_2016_wDate_p30_1080p.mp4 (1920x1080) [15.0 MB] || Arctic_sea_ice_2016_wDate_1080p60.mp4 (1920x1080) [16.6 MB] || Arctic_sea_ice_2016_p30_1080p.webm (1920x1080) [2.8 MB] || seaIce_wDate (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || seaIce_wDate (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || Arctic_seaIce_2016_wDate_4k_p30_2160p.mp4 (3840x2160) [58.3 MB] || seaIce_wDate (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || seaIce_wDate (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || Arctic_seaIce_2016_wDate_4k_2160p30x2.mp4 (3840x2160) [99.4 MB] || ", "release_date": "2016-03-28T12:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-01-07T00:07:18.926662-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 444375, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004400/a004440/SeaIce_max_2016_03_24_A_HD.2500_print.jpg", "filename": "SeaIce_max_2016_03_24_A_HD.2500_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "An image of the Arctic sea ice on March 24, 2016.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408931, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4435, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4435/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Annual Arctic Sea Ice Minimum 1979-2015 with Area Graph", "description": "An animation of the annual Arctic sea ice minimum with a graph overlay showing the area of the minimum sea ice in millions of square kilometers.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || seaIceWgraph_HD.1079_print.jpg (1024x576) [160.4 KB] || seaIceWgraph_HD.1079_searchweb.png (320x180) [91.5 KB] || seaIceWgraph_HD.1079_thm.png (80x40) [6.8 KB] || seaIceWgraph_HD_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [15.5 MB] || seaIceMin_withGraph (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || seaIceWgraph_HD_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [2.9 MB] || seaIceMin_withGraph (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || seaIceWgraph_4k_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [66.3 MB] || seaIceWgraph_HD_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [218 bytes] || ", "release_date": "2016-03-10T10:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-01-05T00:07:06.577166-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 426122, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004400/a004435/seaIceWgraph_HD.1079_print.jpg", "filename": "seaIceWgraph_HD.1079_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "An animation of the annual Arctic sea ice minimum with a graph overlay showing the area of the minimum sea ice in millions of square kilometers.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408932, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4376, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4376/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Antarctic Mass Change from GRACE derived Gravity Observations: Jan 2004 - Jun 2014", "description": "GRACE, NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, consists of twin co-orbiting satellites that fly in a near polar orbit separated by a distance of 220 km. GRACE precisely measures the distance between the two spacecraft in order to make detailed measurements of the Earth's gravitational field. Since its launch in 2002, GRACE has provided a continuous record of changes in the mass of the Earth's ice sheets.These animations show the change in the mass of the Antarctic Ice Sheet between January 2004 and June 2014 as measured by the pair of GRACE satellites. The 1-arc-deg NASA GSFC mascon solution data was resampled to a 5130 x 5130 data array using Kriging interpolation. A color scale was applied where blue values indicate an increase in the ice sheet mass while red shades indicate a decrease. In addition, a graph overlay shows the running total of the accumulated mass change in gigatons.Four separate animations are shown here: one of the full Antarctic Ice Sheet (above) and three of individual regional views (below) showing the regions of West Antarctica, the Antarctic Peninsula and East Antarctica. The time-series of each region is shown with a graph depicting the ice loss for the region alone. Note that the range on the color scale is different for each regional view in order to portray the most detail possible. Areas outside the region being shown are colored in a pale green to indicate that it is not included in the view. The floating ice shelves, shown in a lighter shade of green, are also not included.Technical Note: The glacial isostatic adjustment signal (Earth mass redistribution in response to historical ice loading) has been removed using the ICE-6G model (Peltier et al. 2015). || ", "release_date": "2015-10-27T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-02-02T22:23:16.263521-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 438283, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004300/a004376/GRACE_Antarctica_p30.01146_print.jpg", "filename": "GRACE_Antarctica_p30.01146_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "An animation of mass change over the Antarctic Ice Sheet from GRACE derived gravity observations. This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408933, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4328, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4328/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Greenland's Glaciers as seen by RadarSat", "description": "An animation up the Greenland's Sermilik Fjord to the calving front of the Helheim Glacier, showing the glacier front's change between 2000 to 2013This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || Helheim_radarsat_4k.0800_print.jpg (1024x576) [242.6 KB] || Helheim_radarsat_4k.0800_searchweb.png (180x320) [121.8 KB] || Helheim_radarsat_4k.0800_web.png (320x180) [121.8 KB] || Helheim_radarsat_4k.0800_thm.png (80x40) [7.6 KB] || Helheim_radarsat_4k_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [84.5 MB] || Helheim_radarsat_4k_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [43.3 MB] || Helheim_radarsat_4k_2160p30.webm (3840x2160) [16.2 MB] || Helheim (3840x2160) [256.0 KB] || Helheim_radarsat_4k_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [225.6 MB] || ", "release_date": "2015-08-25T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2024-12-15T00:05:29.329494-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 441733, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004300/a004328/Helheim_radarsat_4k.0800_print.jpg", "filename": "Helheim_radarsat_4k.0800_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "An animation up the Greenland's Sermilik Fjord to the calving front of the Helheim Glacier, showing the glacier front's change between 2000 to 2013This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408934, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3962, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3962/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Greenland Ice Flow", "description": "Greenland looks like a big pile of snow seen from space using a regular camera. But satellite radar interferometry helps us detect the motion of ice beneath the snow. Ice starts flowing from the flanks of topographic divides in the interior of the island, and increases in speed toward the coastline where it is channelized along a set of narrow, powerful outlet glaciers. In the east, these glaciers make their sinuous way through complex terrain at low speed. They form long floating extensions that deform slowly in the cold north. As we move toward sectors of higher snowfall in the northwest and center west, ice flow speeds increase by nearly a factor of 10, with many, smaller glaciers flowing straight down to the coastline at several kilometers per year.This complete description of ice motion was only made possible from the coordinated effort of four space agencies: the Japanese Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency, the European Space Agency, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The data will help scientists improve their understanding of the dynamics of ice in Greenland and in projecting how the Greenland Ice Sheet will respond to climate change in the decades and centuries to come. || ", "release_date": "2012-07-02T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2024-10-09T00:02:24.893109-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 474995, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003900/a003962/Greenland_Comp_720p60.0600_web.png", "filename": "Greenland_Comp_720p60.0600_web.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This animation shows how ice is naturally transported from interior topographic divides to the coast via glaciers. The colors represent the speed of ice flow, with areas in red and purple flowing the fastest at rates of kilometers per year. The vectors indicate the direction of flow. This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 320, "height": 180, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 408935, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3939, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3939/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) Orbits", "description": "The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), also to be named Landsat 8 after its scheduled launch in February 2013, will be the eighth in the series of Landsat satellites. Since 1972, Landsat satellites have been observing and measuring Earth's continental and coastal landscapes at 15 to 30 meter resolution, where human impacts and natural changes can be monitored and characterized over time.This animation portrays how the LDCM satellite will orbit the Earth 13 times per day at an altitude of 705 km collecting landcover data. With a cross-track width of 185 km, the satellite will completely cover the globe in a 16 day period compiling a total of 233 orbits. A day number and the elapsed time are shown to clearly depict the passage of time which starts slowly in the beginning and increases to day-by-day steps at the end of the animation. The terrain is exaggerated by 6 times during the first day portrayed, but is increased to 12 times when the camera pulls out to a global view. An artificial orbit trail is shown following the spacecraft to indicate its position when the satellite itself is too small to be visible. || ", "release_date": "2012-04-16T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2024-10-09T00:02:13.341028-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 476636, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003900/a003939/earth_compWday.0624.jpg", "filename": "earth_compWday.0624.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The composite animation of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite orbiting the Earth, with the satellite, Earth, stars and day/time overlay.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 408936, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3783, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3783/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull Volcanic Ash Plume May 6-8, 2010 - Stereoscopic Version", "description": "During April and May, 2010, the Eyjafjallajökull volcano on Iceland's southern coast erupted, creating an expansive ash cloud that disrupted air traffic throughout Europe and across the Atlantic. This animation shows the flow of this ash cloud for three days in early May on an hourly basis as sensed from a geostationary satellite. The ash cloud heights were determined using an approach developed by NOAA/NESDIS/STAR for the next generation of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R). Data from EUMETSAT's Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) was used as a proxy for GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) data. This data is shown intersecting with the CALIPSO Parallel Attenuated Backscatter curtain on May 6th. In this page the visualization content is offered in two different modes to accommodate stereoscopic systems as: Left and Right Eye separate and Left and Right Eye side-by-side combined on the same frame. || ", "release_date": "2010-10-21T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2024-10-09T16:01:22.308073-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 489466, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003700/a003783/volcanicAsh_comp_L.0413_web.png", "filename": "volcanicAsh_comp_L.0413_web.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This set provides stereoscopic visualization content (Left and Right Eye separate) of the composite animation including the foreground, star background and date overlay.", "width": 320, "height": 180, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 408937, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4097, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4097/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Greenland's Mega-Canyon beneath the Ice Sheet", "description": "Subglacial topography plays an important role in modulating the distribution and flow of meltwater beneath the ice known as basal water flow. This animation portrays topographic data of the bedrock under the Greenland ice sheet derived from ice-penetrating radar data. Clearly evident in the topography is a 750-km-long subglacial canyon in northern Greenland that is likely to have influenced basal water flow from the ice sheet interior to the margin. The authors suggest that the mega-canyon predates ice sheet inception and has influenced basal hydrology in Greenland over past glacial cycles. (See reference under \"Science Paper\" below)Starting with a view of the surface of Greenland, the animation zooms closer to the surface as the ice sheet is stripped away to reveal the false-color topography of the bedrock that lies beneath. Regions above sea level are shown in shades of green while areas below zero are colored by shades of brown. Yellow indicates the area near sea level. The topography is exaggerated from 12 to 40 times in order to accentuate the topographic relief. Visible in the topography from about the midpoint of Greenland to its Northwest coast is the 750-km-long subglacial canyon described by the authors. || ", "release_date": "2013-08-29T14:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:51:53.780411-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 462596, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004000/a004097/canale_grande_V05.0740.jpg", "filename": "canale_grande_V05.0740.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Animation of Greenland's mega-canyon.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } } ], "extra_data": {} }, { "id": 371080, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/svsyoutube-candidates/#media_group_371080", "widget": "Tile gallery", "title": "Ernie Wright's Visualization Choices", "caption": "", "description": "", "items": [ { "id": 408938, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4427, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4427/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "March 2016 Total Solar Eclipse Path", "description": "The animated shadow path of the March 9, 2016 total solar eclipse, showing the umbra (black oval), penumbra (concentric shaded ovals), and path of totality (red) through Indonesia and the western Pacific.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || path.0885_print.jpg (1024x576) [108.6 KB] || path.0885_searchweb.png (320x180) [76.0 KB] || path.0885_thm.png (80x40) [6.9 KB] || 2016tse_path_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [21.6 MB] || 2016tse_path_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [12.0 MB] || fancy (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || 2016tse_path_720p30.webm (1280x720) [6.6 MB] || 2016tse_path_360p30.mp4 (640x360) [4.8 MB] || 2016tse_path_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [186 bytes] || ", "release_date": "2016-02-12T10:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-01-05T22:59:04.605746-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 427277, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004400/a004427/path.0885_print.jpg", "filename": "path.0885_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The animated shadow path of the March 9, 2016 total solar eclipse, showing the umbra (black oval), penumbra (concentric shaded ovals), and path of totality (red) through Indonesia and the western Pacific.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408939, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4404, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4404/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Moon Phase and Libration, 2016", "description": " || Click on the image to download a high-resolution version with labels for craters near the terminator.The data in the table for the entire year can be downloaded as a JSON file or as a text file. || moon.0001.jpg (730x730) [74.4 KB] || comp.0001.tif (1920x1080) [2.5 MB] || ", "release_date": "2015-12-10T12:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-02-02T22:24:39.258207-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 437175, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004400/a004404/comp.0001_print.jpg", "filename": "comp.0001_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The phase and libration of the Moon for 2016, at hourly intervals. Includes supplemental graphics that display the Moon's orbit, subsolar and sub-Earth points, and the Moon's distance from Earth at true scale. Craters near the terminator are labeled.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408940, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4356, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4356/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "LRO and the September 27-28, 2015 Lunar Eclipse: Telescopic View", "description": "On September 28, 2015 (the night of September 27), the Moon enters the Earth's shadow, creating a total lunar eclipse. This visualization simulates the view through a telescope during the eclipse while also showing the position of the LRO spacecraft.", "release_date": "2015-09-15T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-01-30T15:16:12.334449-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 439739, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004300/a004356/eclipse.0990_print.jpg", "filename": "eclipse.0990_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The appearance of the Moon during the lunar eclipse at 10 seconds per frame. Displays LRO's orbit, its view of the Sun, and meters for the amount of sunlight LRO is receiving and the charge of its battery.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408941, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4349, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4349/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Supermoon Eclipse 2015", "description": "The geometry of the Moon's orbit in motion, from the end of August until the supermoon eclipse on September 27-28, 2015. The inner blue circle shows perigee distance, the outer blue circle shows apogee distance, and the off-center, light gray circle shows the Moon's orbit. 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The inner blue circle shows perigee distance, the outer blue circle shows apogee distance, and the off-center, light gray circle shows the Moon's orbit. Frame sequences with alpha channel are available for the separate elements of the animation.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408942, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4341, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4341/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "September 27, 2015 Total Lunar Eclipse: View from the Moon", "description": "With the lunar horizon in the foreground, the Earth passes in front of the Sun, revealing the red ring of sunrises and sunsets along the limb of the Earth. The Earth and Sun are in Virgo for observers on the Moon. The bright star above them is beta Virginis.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || eclipse.0540_print.jpg (1024x576) [77.0 KB] || eclipse.0540_searchweb.png (320x180) [47.4 KB] || eclipse.0540_thm.png (80x40) [3.4 KB] || from_moon_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [7.4 MB] || from_moon_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [3.2 MB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || from_moon_720p30.webm (1280x720) [3.7 MB] || from_moon_360p30.mp4 (640x360) [967.9 KB] || ", "release_date": "2015-09-01T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:49:25.086191-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 441154, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004300/a004341/eclipse.0540_print.jpg", "filename": "eclipse.0540_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "With the lunar horizon in the foreground, the Earth passes in front of the Sun, revealing the red ring of sunrises and sunsets along the limb of the Earth. The Earth and Sun are in Virgo for observers on the Moon. 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The Lunar Module, nicknamed Eagle and flown by Neil Armstrong and Edwin \"Buzz\" Aldrin, touched down near the southern rim of the Sea of Tranquility, one of the large, dark basins that contribute to the Man in the Moon visible from Earth. Armstrong and Aldrin spent about two hours outside the LM setting up experiments and collecting samples. At one point, Armstrong ventured east of the LM to examine a small crater, dubbed Little West, that he'd flown over just before landing.The trails of disturbed regolith created by the astronauts' boots are still clearly visible in photographs of the landing site taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) narrow-angle camera (LROC) more than four decades later.LROC imagery makes it possible to visit the landing site in a whole new way by flying around a three-dimensional model of the site. LROC scientists created the digital elevation model using a stereo pair of images. Each image in the pair shows the site from a slightly different angle, allowing sophisticated software to infer the shape of the terrain, similar to the way that left and right eye views are combined in the brain to produce the perception of depth.The animator draped an LROC photograph over the terrain model. He also added a 3D model of the LM descent stage—the real LM in the photograph looks oddly flat when viewed at an oblique angle.Although the area around the site is relatively flat by lunar standards, West Crater (the big brother of the crater visited by Armstrong) appears in dramatic relief near the eastern edge of the terrain model. Ejecta from West comprises the boulders that Armstrong had to avoid as he searched for a safe landing site.Apollo 11 was the first of six increasingly ambitious crewed lunar landings. The exploration of the lunar surface by the Apollo astronauts, when combined with the wealth of remote sensing data now being returned by LRO, continues to inform our understanding of our nearest neighbor in space. || ", "release_date": "2014-07-18T09:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-01-06T00:06:45.362351-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 453511, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004100/a004185/G2014-064_print.jpg", "filename": "G2014-064_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The Apollo 11 landing site visualized in three dimensions using photography and a stereo digital elevation model from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. Transcript.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408945, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4075, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4075/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Lunar Transit from Solar Dynamics Observatory (2010)", "description": "Just as we do on Earth, the Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite periodically crosses the Moon's shadow and experiences a solar eclipse. During the eclipse witnessed by SDO on October 7, 2010, the southern hemisphere of the Moon was silhouetted against the solar disk, revealing some especially prominent mountain peaks near the Moon's south pole. By using elevation data from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to visualize the Moon from SDO's point of view, it's possible to identify these peaks. Although all of these are well-known features, all but one of them have no official names. The following list corresponds to the labels in the animation, from left to right.In his 1954 sketch of the lunar south pole, astronomer Ewen Whitaker labeled this feature \"M3.\" It's a mountain about halfway between the craters Cabeus and Drygalski, at 83.2°S 68°W.Whitaker's \"M1,\" a mountain on the northern rim of Cabeus, 83.4°S 33°W.A mountain on the southern rim of Malapert crater, about halfway between the centers of Malapert and Haworth. Whitaker labels this Malapert Alpha. It's also known as Mons Malapert or Malapert Peak. 85.8°S 0°E.Labeled Leibnitz Beta by Whitaker and now officially named Mons Mouton, this is part of the highlands adjacent to the northern rim of Nobile crater. 84°S 37°E. Part of the Leibnitz mountain range first identified by Johann Schröter in the late 1700s, unrelated to Leibnitz Crater on the lunar far side.A mountain near Amundsen crater, on the western (Earthward) rim of Hédervári crater, 82.2°S 75°E. Whitaker tentatively labels this Leibnitz Epsilon in his sketch.The Moon visualization uses the latest albedo and elevation maps from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). || ", "release_date": "2013-06-12T10:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-02-02T22:11:14.692179-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 465571, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004000/a004075/sdomoon.0230_print.jpg", "filename": "sdomoon.0230_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The southern limb of the Moon transits across the Sun in this sequence of images from Solar Dynamics Observatory on October 7, 2010. Five peaks near the lunar south pole, visible in silhouette, are identified. A visualization of the Moon using Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data is precisely aligned with the SDO image, then rotated to show these five peaks on a false-color global elevation map.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408946, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4057, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4057/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "LEND Looks for Water at the South Pole", "description": "Since Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) entered lunar orbit in 2009, its neutron detector, LEND, has been counting the neutrons coming from the Moon's surface.Neutrons are created when galactic cosmic rays strike atoms in the lunar regolith. These neutrons bounce from atom to atom like billiard balls, losing energy with each collision. Along the way, some of these neutrons escape into space, where LEND can detect them.The presence of hydrogen in the lunar soil reduces the number of neutrons that escape. To map out likely deposits of water ice, LEND scientists look for this deficit of neutrons in the epithermal (medium) energy range.If the deficit were simply due to random fluctuations, the hydrogen map would never coalesce into a sharp image, but as this animation shows, the map of epithermal neutron deficit at the south pole of the Moon improves over time and converges on particular spots. These include especially strong signals in the permanently shadowed parts of Cabeus and Shoemaker craters, where ice would be completely shielded from the sun. But LEND and other missions have found signs of water in places that aren't permanently shadowed while apparently excluding some places that are, both of which are surprising and exciting discoveries. || ", "release_date": "2013-03-25T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-01-05T22:20:45.147058-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 467193, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004000/a004057/lend.2180_print.jpg", "filename": "lend.2180_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "We follow LRO to the south pole and watch as the LEND instrument integrates neutron counts over the three years from July 2009 to June 2012.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408947, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4014, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4014/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "GRAIL Primary Mission Gravity Maps (AGU 2012)", "description": "The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission comprises a pair of satellites launched in September, 2011 and placed in orbit around the Moon in January, 2012. The two satellites, named Ebb and Flow, used radio signals to precisely measure their separation as they flew in formation, one following the other in the same nearly circular polar orbit. These measurements allowed mission scientists to build up an accurate and detailed gravity map of the Moon.If the Moon were a perfectly smooth sphere of uniform density, the gravity experienced by the spacecraft would be exactly the same everywhere. But like other rocky bodies in the solar system, including the Earth, the Moon has both a bumpy surface and a lumpy interior. As the spacecraft fly in their orbits, they experience slight variations in gravity caused by both of these irregularities, variations which show up as small changes in the separation of the two spacecraft.The free-air gravity map shows these variations directly. (Free-air is a historical term; there is, of course, no air on the Moon.) The Bouguer gravity map subtracts the effect of the bumpy surface to show the lumpiness underneath. The elevation maps from the laser altimeter on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) were used to create a model of what the gravity would be if the Moon were bumpy but not lumpy. This model was then subtracted from the free-air map to produce the Bouguer map. (Note: The Bouguer map shown here was filtered to emphasize smaller features; harmonic degrees 1 to 6 were excluded.)The crustal thickness map is inferred from the Bouguer map: If the density of the crust is assumed to be uniform, then the gravity anomalies visible in the Bouguer gravity map can be explained by variations in the thickness of the crust. Highs in gravity indicate places where the denser mantle is closer to the surface, and hence where the crust is thinner.While aiding navigation for future lunar missions, GRAIL's gravity measurements reveal information about the internal structure of the Moon, improving our understanding of the origin and development of not just the Moon, but also the Earth and the rest of the inner solar system. || ", "release_date": "2012-12-05T12:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2017-01-23T12:22:42-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 470169, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004000/a004014/topo_free.0200_preview.jpg", "filename": "topo_free.0200_preview.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Side-by-side rotating Moon globes showing LOLA elevation and GRAIL free-air gravity.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 408948, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3818, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3818/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Earth Science Decadal Survey Missions", "description": "This animated graphic outlines the 15 NASA Earth science missions recommended by the National Research Council in its decadal survey report, published in 2007. These future missions will form the basis of a systematic space-based study of the Earth. For more information about the survey and the missions, see this NASA Science article, this decadal survey Web site, and the NRC's report. || ", "release_date": "2011-02-02T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-01-05T22:03:29.346529-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 488134, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003800/a003818/Decadal1080p.6261.jpg", "filename": "Decadal1080p.6261.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "As each decadal survey satellite's orbital path is highlighted in color, the text briefly summarizes the mission's scientific goals.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 408949, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3728, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3728/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Magellan: Venus False-Color Terrain", "description": "This animation is a brief tour of the global terrain of the planet Venus as revealed by radar onboard the Magellan spacecraft. The height of the terrain is color-coded, with blues and greens representing low altitudes and reds representing high altitudes. Highlighted are two large \"continents,\" or highlands, Aphrodite Terra and Ishtar Terra; the Maxwell Montes mountain range; and Maat Mons, a large, currently dormant volcano.Magellan arrived at Venus in August of 1990 and spent four years there collecting data. The elevation map used here was created with data collected during the first mapping cycle. Many of the coverage gaps, represented here by black pixels, were filled in during later mapping cycles. || ", "release_date": "2010-06-17T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:54:12.173703-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 491716, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003700/a003728/venus.0760.jpg", "filename": "venus.0760.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "An animation highlighting major features of the surface of Venus.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1280, "height": 720, "pixels": 921600 } } }, { "id": 408950, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3866, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3866/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "LOLA Footprints II", "description": "LOLA, the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, is an instrument for measuring the altitude of the Moon's terrain. As LRO orbits the Moon, LOLA bounces laser light off the lunar surface 28 times per second. An array of five sensors arranged in an X-shape detects the reflected light. The amount of time it takes the light to travel to the surface and back to the sensors tells the instrument how far away the surface is. Over time, LOLA builds up a complete elevation map of the Moon.This animation illustrates how the X-shaped LOLA sensor footprint travels over the lunar surface. The LOLA data track is taken from LRO orbit number 1155, on September 27, 2009, as the spacecraft passed over Amundsen crater near the lunar south pole. It begins with a distant view showing the entire crater, then switches to a view near the surface that chases the laser pulses over the central peak and across the floor of this large crater. Through most of the movie, the laser pulses are shown racing across the surface at actual speed, but at one point, the pace is slowed so that the viewer can see the sensor pattern of each individual laser pulse.The imagery of the ground view is a high-resolution photograph taken by the LRO narrow-angle camera at the same time this LOLA data track was being recorded. The shape of the terrain in all of the views is taken from LOLA elevation maps. All of this data is publicly available from the Planetary Data System's LRO archive.This is a new and improved version of entry #3758. || ", "release_date": "2011-10-06T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:53:35.482307-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 483045, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003800/a003866/footprints.1000.jpg", "filename": "footprints.1000.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The LOLA sensor footprint travels over the central peak and across the floor of Amundsen crater. The \"no date\" frames directory contains frames 120 to 530 without the date and time overlay.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 408951, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3690, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3690/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Releases Data to the Planetary Data System", "description": "On March 15, 2010, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) released its first installment of scientific data to NASA's public archive for planetary data, the Planetary Data System (PDS). This animation highlights several of the datasets made available through the PDS by the LOLA, LEND, and Diviner instruments on LRO. || ", "release_date": "2010-03-28T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-01-05T22:02:12.058404-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 493419, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003600/a003690/pds_first_data.0600.jpg", "filename": "pds_first_data.0600.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Flying toward the moon's south pole, data for hydrogen, temperature, and terrain are revealed.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1280, "height": 720, "pixels": 921600 } } }, { "id": 408952, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3662, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3662/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Counting Craters on the Moon", "description": "Craters light up in an east to west (Tranquillitatis toward Orientale) sweep around the Moon.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || crater_count.0900.jpg (1280x720) [160.5 KB] || crater_count.0900_web.png (320x180) [52.4 KB] || crater_count.0900_thm.png (80x40) [4.2 KB] || crater_count.mp4 (1280x720) [6.4 MB] || crater_count_720p.m2v (1280x720) [53.8 MB] || 1280x720_16x9_30p (1280x720) [64.0 KB] || crater_count.webmhd.webm (960x540) [6.8 MB] || crater_count_cbar_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [8.3 MB] || crater_count_512x288.m1v (512x288) [9.8 MB] || a003662_320.m1v (320x180) [4.0 MB] || ", "release_date": "2010-09-16T14:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:54:05.094083-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 490340, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003600/a003662/crater_count.0900.jpg", "filename": "crater_count.0900.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Craters light up in an east to west (Tranquillitatis toward Orientale) sweep around the Moon.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1280, "height": 720, "pixels": 921600 } } } ], "extra_data": {} }, { "id": 371081, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/svsyoutube-candidates/#media_group_371081", "widget": "Card gallery", "title": "Cheng Zhang's Visualization Choices", "caption": "", "description": "", "items": [ { "id": 408953, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4334, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4334/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Atmospheric River Reaching California", "description": "An atmospheric river occured between 9th and 12th of Dec. 2014 over the Pacific Ocean and Southwest US. || tm_atmosphericRiver_waterVapor_Imerg_4xSlow_0_print.jpg (1024x576) [112.1 KB] || tm_atmosphericRiver_waterVapor_Imerg_4xSlow_0_searchweb.png (320x180) [73.4 KB] || tm_atmosphericRiver_waterVapor_Imerg_4xSlow_0_thm.png (80x40) [6.1 KB] || tm_atmosphericRiver_waterVapor_Imerg_4xSlow_0_web.png (320x180) [73.4 KB] || tm_atmosphericRiver_waterVapor_Imerg_4xSlow_0.mp4 (1920x1080) [5.5 MB] || atmosphericRiverOnly (1920x1080) [32.0 KB] || tm_atmosphericRiver_waterVapor_Imerg_4xSlow_0.webm (1920x1080) [1.0 MB] || tm_atmosphericRiver_waterVapor_Imerg_4xSlow_0001_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [3.1 MB] || tm_atomsphericRiver_waterWapor_Imerg_4xSlow_f24453.tif (5760x3240) [19.1 MB] || tm_atmosphericRiver_waterVapor_Imerg_4xSlow_0001_360p30.mp4 (640x360) [1.2 MB] || ", "release_date": "2015-07-30T10:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:49:31.333684-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 441450, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004300/a004334/tm_atmosphericRiver_waterVapor_Imerg_4xSlow_0_print.jpg", "filename": "tm_atmosphericRiver_waterVapor_Imerg_4xSlow_0_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "An atmospheric river occured between 9th and 12th of Dec. 2014 over the Pacific Ocean and Southwest US. 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Geographic coordinate output volumes from the model are 5760 x 2881 x 72 voxels per time step. For each voxel numerous physical parameters are available such as temperature, wind speed and direction, pressure, humidity, etc. This visualziation uses a combination of the CLOUD and TAUIR parameters.The visualization spans a little more than 7 days of simulation time which is 354 time steps. The time period was chosen because a simulated category-4 typhoon developed off the coast of China. The frames were rendered using Renderman. Brickmap volumes generated for each time step are about 2.6 gigabytes. This short visualization referenced nearly a terabyte of brickmap files. The 7 day period is repeated several times during the course of the visualization.This visualization was presented at SIGGRAPH 2014 during the Dailies session. || ", "release_date": "2014-08-10T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:50:40.039099-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 453955, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004100/a004180/test28.1600_print.jpg", "filename": "test28.1600_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Clouds and TAUIR from the 7km GEOS-5 Nature Run (7km-G5NR)For complete transcript, click here.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408955, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4174, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4174/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Garbage Patch Visualization Experiment", "description": "We wanted to see if we could visualize the so-called ocean garbage patches. We start with data from floating, scientific buoys that NOAA has been distributing in the oceans for the last 35-year represented here as white dots. Let's speed up time to see where the buoys go... Since new buoys are continually released, it's hard to tell where older buoys move to. Let's clear the map and add the starting locations of all the buoys... Interesting patterns appear all over the place. Lines of buoys are due to ships and planes that released buoys periodically. If we let all of the buoys go at the same time, we can observe buoy migration patterns. The number of buoys decreases because some buoys don't last as long as others. The buoys migrate to 5 known gyres also called ocean garbage patches.We can also see this in a computational model of ocean currents called ECCO-2. We release particles evenly around the world and let the modeled currents carry the particles. The particles from the model also migrate to the garbage patches. Even though the retimed buoys and modeled particles did not react to currents at the same times, the fact that the data tend to accumulate in the same regions show how robust the result is.The dataset used for the ocean buoy visualization is the Global Drifter Database from the GDP Drifter Data Assembly Center, part of the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory. The data covered the period February 1979 through September 2013. Although the actual dataset has a wealth of data, including surface temperatures, salinities, etc., only the buoy positions were used in the visualization.This visualization was accepted as one of the \"Dailies\" at SIGGRAPH 2015. || ", "release_date": "2015-08-10T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-02-02T22:15:00.181660-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 454829, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004100/a004174/driftersOnly_originalTiming.05600_print.jpg", "filename": "driftersOnly_originalTiming.05600_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The NOAA drifter buoys had been released at various times and locations around the world. As you watch new buoys get released, notice the patterns of the buoys. These are due to the way that they were release. For exmaple, a boat sailing in a roughly straight line might release a series of buoys every few hours causing a line of dots to appear; or, a bunch of buoys might be released near a research station making the buoys look like they all emerge from one location.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408956, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3621, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3621/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "LRO Transition from Earth-Centered to Moon-Centered Coordinates", "description": "This animation illustrates the solution to a human factors problem in the visualization of an orbit path, in this case the launch and lunar orbit insertion of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite.The visualization (found HERE) shows LRO orbiting the Earth, traveling from the Earth to the moon, and entering lunar orbit. Throughout the visualization, a trail is drawn to show LRO's path. This trail is a history of LRO's motion.The viewer's expectation is that LRO first travels in a circular orbit centered on the Earth, then follows a smoothly curving path connecting the Earth to the moon, and finally enters an elliptical orbit around the moon. The problem for the animator is that an accurate trail satisfying all of these expectations is impossible to draw in a single coordinate system. A trail drawn in Earth-centered coordinates forms a looping, spring-like path when LRO enters lunar orbit, and a trail drawn in moon body-fixed coordinates becomes disconnected from the Earth and precesses through space.Simply switching from one coordinate system to the other would make the trail appear to jump suddenly and dramatically. Creating a hybrid trail would leave a visually confusing elbow in LRO's path.The solution illustrated here is to morph the trail from one coordinate system to the other. The blue trail is the Earth-centered path, the orange trail is the moon body-fixed path, and the white trail is the morph between the two. In the visualization, the Earth trail shortens, disconnecting it from the Earth, and then morphs over about 400 frames into the moon body-fixed trail. With careful timing, the result is a visually seamless transition from one coordinate system to the other.Notice that the difference in coordinate systems creates no ambiguity about the present position of LRO at any given time. LRO is always at the intersection of the trails. The problem arises when attempting to depict the history of its motion. That history takes different shapes in coordinate systems that move relative to one another.An animation showing LRO's entire path in both coordinate systems simultaneously can be found HERE. || ", "release_date": "2009-07-27T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:54:40.908396-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 497451, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003600/a003621/lro_curve_morph.3050.jpg", "filename": "lro_curve_morph.3050.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "LRO orbit insertion trail morphing from Earth centered to moon centered coordinatesThis video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1280, "height": 720, "pixels": 921600 } } }, { "id": 408957, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3618, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3618/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "LRO in Earth Centered and Moon Centered Coordinates", "description": "This visualization shows the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) orbit insertion from two different points of view (i.e., coordinate systems): Earth centered inertial coordinates and moon centered fixed coordinates. Orbit trails are shown in bright colors where the orbits have been and in darker colors for where the orbits will be. At any particular time, LRO is exactly at the intersection of the two orbit trail curves. The Earth centered coordinates are in blue and the moon centered coordinate are in orange.Why are there two different trails?Because the moon is moving, the moon centered coordinate system is moving. If the moon was stationary with respect to the Earth, both trails would look the same; but since the moon is moving, the moon's trail is always moving and the trails look different.Think of LRO orbiting the moon. From the moon's perspective, it's just going in an ellipse around the moon. In this case, the observation point (the moon) is moving with LRO. But, from the Earth's perspective, if you plotted out the trail of LRO, you would get a series of loops as LRO goes around the moon and as the moon moves through the sky.Animating an orbit trail that changes between two discrete coordinate systems is a challenge. A discontinuity arises if you just switch over from one trail to another. To animate a smooth transition one solution is to carefully select sections of the Earth centered and moon centered curves and then morph from the Earth centered curve section to the moon centered curve section while the animation was playing. This technique was used here as well. || ", "release_date": "2009-07-17T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:54:43.163785-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 497443, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003600/a003618/lro_2_coordSystems07.5651.jpg", "filename": "lro_2_coordSystems07.5651.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "LRO orbits using 2 discrete coordinate systemsThis video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1280, "height": 720, "pixels": 921600 } } }, { "id": 408958, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3884, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3884/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Thermohaline Circulation using Improved Flow Field", "description": "The oceans are mostly composed of warm salty water near the surface over cold, less salty water in the ocean depths. These two regions don't mix except in certain special areas. The ocean currents, the movement of the ocean in the surface layer, are driven primarily by the wind. In certain areas near the polar oceans, the colder surface water also gets saltier due to evaporation or sea ice formation. In these regions, the surface water becomes dense enough to sink to the ocean depths. This pumping of surface water into the deep ocean forces the deep water to move horizontally until it can find an area on the world where it can rise back to the surface and close the current loop. This usually occurs in the equatorial ocean, mostly in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. This very large, slow current is called the thermohaline circulation because it is caused by temperature and salinity (haline) variations.This animation shows one of the major regions where this pumping occurs, the North Atlantic Ocean around Greenland, Iceland, and the North Sea. The surface ocean current brings new water to this region from the South Atlantic via the Gulf Stream and the water returns to the South Atlantic via the North Atlantic Deep Water current. The continual influx of warm water into the North Atlantic polar ocean keeps the regions around Iceland and southern Greenland generally free of sea ice year round.The animation also shows another feature of the global ocean circulation: the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. The region around latitude 60 south is the only part of the Earth where the ocean can flow all the way around the world with no obstruction by land. As a result, both the surface and deep waters flow from west to east around Antarctica. This circumpolar motion links the world's oceans and allows the deep water circulation from the Atlantic to rise in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, thereby closing the surface circulation with the northward flow in the Atlantic.The color on the world's ocean's at the beginning of this animation represents surface water density, with dark regions being most dense and light regions being least dense (see the animation Sea Surface Temperature, Salinity and Density). The depths of the oceans are highly exaggerated (100x in oceans, 20x on land) to better illustrate the differences between the surface flows and deep water flows. The actual flows in this model are based on current theories of the thermohaline circulation rather than actual data. The thermohaline circulation is a very slow moving current that can be difficult to distinguish from general ocean circulation. Therefore, it is difficult to measure or simulate.This version of the visualization combines the Earth look of the original thermohaline visualization with the new thermohaline flow field generated for the Science On a Sphere production, \"Loop\".This version is also designed so it can be played on 3x3 or 5x3 hyperwalls. When playing on a 3x3 hyperwall, use b1 -> d3 tiles. Each individual image tile is 1368x768. || ", "release_date": "2011-12-05T15:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2024-10-13T00:02:38.204644-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 481187, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003800/a003884/thermohaline_assembled.1920x1080.2000.jpg", "filename": "thermohaline_assembled.1920x1080.2000.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The center 3x3 hyperwall tiles assembled and reduced to play on laptops and destops.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 408959, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4273, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4273/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "CALIPSO observes Saharan dust crossing the Atlantic Ocean", "description": "Subtitled visualization depicting Saharan dust travelling across the Atlantic Ocean to the Amazon Basin. MODIS imagery shows a 2D representation of the dust cloud, which is then compared to CALIPSO data curtains showing dust throughout the air column. Seasonal dust flux measurements are visualized using particles systems. 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For complete transcript, click here.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 408961, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4137, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4137/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "SVS Animation Sampler", "description": "The SVS Animation Sampler features a collection of thirty three recent animations created in the Scientific Visualization Studio. A short segment is shown from each animation. The speed of playback on some segments has been altered in order to include more of the original animation in the time allowed. A table enumerating each animation included in this sampler is displayed below. The full animations along with the documentation for each can be accessed through the links listed in the table. In addition, a PDF document that briefly summarizes each animation is available here.1. CME Strikes the Earth17. GPM Instruments2. CME Research Model18. Orbits of Landsat-83. Moon's Phase and Libration19. Landsat-8 Band Remix4. Moon's Permanently Shadowed Regions20. Landsat Land Use Change: 25 Years5. Lunar Topography21. Chelyabinsk Bolide Plume6. Global Hawk Measures Convection in \"Hot Tower\"22. Antarctic Ocean Flows7. Global Hawk Observes Saharan Air Layer23. Ice-Penetrating Radar8. GOES-5 Hurricane Simulation24. Antarctic Bedrock9. Perpetual Ocean25. Sea Ice10. IPCC Temperature Projection26. Snow Cover11. Van Allen Probes View Radiation Belts27. Active Fires12. Comet ISON28. Drought13. Lunar Maps29. Nile Basin Water Balance14. Orbits of Weather Satellites30. Greenland's Ice Sheet Flow15. NASA's Earth Observing Fleet31. Greenland's Mega-Canyon16. Landsat-8 Long Swath32. Solar Dynamics Observatory 33. Earthrise || ", "release_date": "2014-01-27T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:51:16.969127-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 458885, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004100/a004137/SVS_Sampler.00050.jpg", "filename": "SVS_Sampler.00050.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Animation sampler of thirty three of the recent animation created in the Scientific Visualization Studio.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 408962, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4469, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4469/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Dynamic Earth-A New Beginning", "description": "The visualization 'Excerpt from \"Dynamic Earth\"' has been one of the most popular visualizations that the Scientific Visualization Studio has ever created. It's often used in presentations and Hyperwall shows to illustrate the connections between the Earth and the Sun, as well as the power of computer simulation in understanding those connections.There is one part of this visualization, however, that has always seemed a little clumsy to us. The opening shot is a pullback from the limb of the sun, where the sun is represented by a movie of 304 Angstrom images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). It is difficult to pull back from the limb of a flat sun image and make the sun look spherical, and the problem was made more difficult because the original sun images were in a spherical dome show format. As a result, the pullback from the sun showed some odd reprojection artifacts.The best solution to this issue was to replace the existing pullout with a new one, one which pulled directly out from the center of the solar disk. For the new beginning, we chose a series of SDO images in the 171 Angstrom channel that show a visible coronal mass ejection (CME) in the lower right corner of the solar disk. Although this is not the specific CME that is seen affecting Venus and Earth later in this visualization, its presence links the SDO animation thematically to the later solar storm. The SDO images were also brightened considerably and tinted yellow to match the common perception of the Sun as a bright yellow object (even though it is actually white).Please go to the original version of this visualization to see the complete credits and additional details. || ", "release_date": "2016-06-16T15:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-01-05T23:03:46.233808-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 423901, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004400/a004469/newsun.00000_print.jpg", "filename": "newsun.00000_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This is the complete Dynamic Earth excerpt with a new beginning at 1080p and 4K resolution.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } } ], "extra_data": {} } ] }