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Until that time, Science On a Sphere had already established an impressive reputation for depiction of planetary data in a dramatic way. But FOOTPRINTS marks the first time that a thorough set of techniques and artistic rules have been applied in the service of a full featured production presented on a spherical screen. But more than just a showcase for discrete data sets, the 16 minute film provides a conceptual framework about the human drive to explore. By contextualizing data with compelling language, inventive pictures, and dramatic sound, FOOTPRINTS seeks to engage and enthuse audiences who may not understand the practicalities and majesty of NASA's and NOAA's observations, and may not otherwise have any contact with what these two science agencies actually do. As a presentation tool, Science On a Sphere is relatively new. NOAA invented and developed its core hardware and software within the past few years. According to Dr. Alexander MacDonald, the NOAA scientist located at the Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, who originally conceived of it, Science On a Sphere is intended to present global science as it should be presented and to stimulate students to learn more about the Earth's environment and the solar system.In the past few years Science On a Sphere systems have begun to be installed in museums and science centers around the world. Scientists and administrators at NASA Goddard saw potential to use the Sphere as both a teaching and an outreach tool and with NOAA's support decided to bring one to the campus. It's currently installed at the Goddard Visitor Center.For several years there has been a slowly growing list of planetary data sets that can play on Spheres located in museums and institutions around the country. NASA and NOAA intend to dramatically augment that collection with new images and data. But FOOTPRINTS changes the playing field. With the release of this film, the Goddard team dramatically catapults forward the capabilities of the system, taking it far beyond its initial limits of merely depicting planetary data sets. Beyond encompassing state of the art data visualizations, the production team developed new ways for working with computer generated illustrations and animation, high definition video, graphics, text, and more. In a little more than three and a half months, the core group developed a palette of new technical processes and aesthetic guidelines for presenting media on the Sphere.The movie asks audiences to consider the idea that what they know is only a function of what questions they're willing to ask. It's an intellectual and creative backdrop to the overall production, and also a philosophical backdrop to the excitement about the vital work that NASA and NOAA do in service of the public interest. || ", "release_date": "2010-06-10T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:54:12.541328-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 502165, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010500/a010572/Footprints_MP_1k_BRT_16000.00227_print.jpg", "filename": "Footprints_MP_1k_BRT_16000.00227_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "FOOTPRINTS has been prepared exclusively for playback on spherical projections systems. It will not appear in its proper format on a traditional computer or television screen. If you are interested in dowloading the complete final movie file for spherical playback, please visit :ftp://public.sos.noaa.gov/extras/", "width": 1024, "height": 1024, "pixels": 1048576 } } }, { "id": 412066, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 10573, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10573/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "RETURN TO THE MOON", "description": "NASA's home for spherical films on Magic Planet. Download the Magic Planet-ready movie file here.The silvery disc of inspiration for countless philosophers and lovers also happens to be one of the great destinations in the annals of exploration. Earth's moon shines like a beacon, beckoning scientists and the simply curious. But it's been a long time since anyone has visited, and even the most basic signals from unmanned probes have been few and far between. Unfold your maps. With the advent of the NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), humanity makes a return to the moon like a herald announcing a new age. To commemorate the mission and champion the value of future planned lunar expeditions, the Space Agency created a new short film called RETURN TO THE MOON. Designed expressly for the Science On a Sphere platform, a striking spherical projection system now playing in theaters around the world, RETURN TO THE MOON shows off our silver sibling like a jewel of the night. Starting with a brief historical look back at the legacy of human achievement in lunar exploration, the movie presses audiences to take stock in their own relationship to the moon. Then it takes them on a journey. Travelling along with the LRO spacecraft, viewers will discover some of the essential scientific subjects that scientists plan to study. They'll follow LRO as it makes orbits around the moon, gathering data about the surface and what may lie beneath. And then, in a dramatic demonstration of a daring part of the mission, moviegoers will witness the inventive and powerful moment when NASA engineers intentionally crash a research probe into the surface of the moon to dig beneath the top layer. The space agency calls that impact probe LCROSS, and as both a research tool and a cinematic experience, it promises to deliver something exciting. RETURN TO THE MOON was produced by the media team at the Goddard Space Flight Center. One of NASA's premiere media teams, this group not only delivers state of the art data visualizations of ongoing research, but also helped write the book on spherical filmmaking. At its time of release, RETURN TO THE MOON was the third fully produced spherical movie from Goddard, and an exciting departure in terms of how these kind of products fuse dramatic presentational style with robust science. || ", "release_date": "2010-06-10T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:54:12.606687-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 499661, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010500/a010573/RTTM_MP_1k_BRT_16000.00577_print.jpg", "filename": "RTTM_MP_1k_BRT_16000.00577_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "RETURN TO THE MOON has been prepared exclusively for playback on spherical projections systems. It will not appear in its proper format on a traditional computer or television screen. If you are interested in dowloading the complete final movie file for spherical playback, please visit :ftp://public.sos.noaa.gov/extras/", "width": 1024, "height": 1024, "pixels": 1048576 } } }, { "id": 412067, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 10477, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10477/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "LARGEST: A Spherical Movie About Jupiter", "description": "NASA's home for spherical films on Magic Planet. Download the Magic Planet-ready movie file here.Three hundred and eighty million miles from Earth, the solar system's largest planet spins like a sizzling top in the night, massive and powerful beyond all comparison short of the sun itself. It's therefore only fitting—and certainly about time—that the fifth planet receive its proper cinematic due, set naturally on the most appropriate cinematic platform. With the movie LARGEST, Jupiter comes to Science On a Sphere.LARGEST examines the gas giant like a work of art, like a destination of celestial wonder. Starting with the basics, the movie examines the gross anatomy of the immense planet. From swirling winds to astounding rotational velocity to unimaginable size, Jupiter demands nothing less than a list of superlatives. But where general description sets the stage, LARGEST parts the curtains on humanity's experience with the fifth planet. The movie takes us on a journey to this immense sphere via dramatic fly-bys with some of the most astounding robotic probes ever designed. Then, with NASA instruments trained on the striped behemoth, the drama really begins.NASA released LARGEST on September 15, 2009. It is one in a series of spherical movies created entirely by staff at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. But while the process to create a fully spherical movie is something of an in-house Goddard creation, the Science On a Sphere projection system itself is an invention of the space agency's sibling NOAA.This film has been prepared exclusively for playback on spherical projections systems. It will not play properly on a traditional computer or television screen. If you are interested in downloading the complete final movie file for spherical playback, please visit ftp://public.sos.noaa.gov/extras/.For more information about the movie itself, visit the main website at www.nasa.gov/largest. || ", "release_date": "2009-09-04T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:54:39.588686-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 496478, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010400/a010477/LargestTrailer720x405-H.264.01377_print.jpg", "filename": "LargestTrailer720x405-H.264.01377_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": " LARGEST introduces mainstream audiences to the planet Jupiter. The following trailer showcases some of the visual themes contained in the movie and points to the film's main website.This film has been prepared exclusively for playback on spherical projections systems. It will not appear in its proper format on a traditional computer or television screen. If you are interested in dowloading the complete final movie file for spherical playback, please visit :ftp://public.sos.noaa.gov/extras/ ", "width": 1023, "height": 577, "pixels": 590271 } } }, { "id": 412068, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 12126, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12126/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Science On a Sphere: A Global Tour of Precipitation from NASA", "description": "Precipitation (falling rain and snow) is our fresh water reservoir in the sky and is fundamental to life on Earth. A Global Tour of Precipitation from NASA shows how rain and snowfall moves around the world from the vantage of space using measurements from the Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory, or GPM. This is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and offers the most detailed and worldwide view of rain and snowfall ever created.This narrated movie is created for Science On a Sphere, a platform designed by NOAA that displays movies on a spherical screen. Audiences can view the movie from any side of the sphere and can see any part of Earth. During this show viewers will be guided through a variety of precipitation patterns and display features such as the persistent band of the heaviest rainfall around the equator and tight swirls of tropical storms in the Northern Hemisphere. At subtropical latitudes in both hemispheres there are persistent dry areas and this is where most of the major deserts reside. Sea surface temperature and winds are also shown to highlight the interconnectedness of the Earth system. The movie concludes with near real-time global precipitation data from GPM, which is provided to Science On a Sphere roughly six hours after the observation.To download this movie formatted for a spherical screen, visit NOAA's official Science On a Sphere website below:‌• A Global Tour of Precipitation from NASA‌• Near Real-Time Global Precipitation Data || ", "release_date": "2016-05-16T11:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2019-06-18T18:30:50-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 424331, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012100/a012126/YOUTUBE_HQ-12126_2DSOS_IMERG-MERRA-SST-Snippet_youtube_hq.00001_print.jpg", "filename": "YOUTUBE_HQ-12126_2DSOS_IMERG-MERRA-SST-Snippet_youtube_hq.00001_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This visualization combines MUR Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data with GPM's IMERG precipitation data and MERRA winds. Note, the time period within each dataset does not match.", "width": 1024, "height": 512, "pixels": 524288 } } }, { "id": 412069, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 11332, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11332/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "WATER FALLS — A Science On a Sphere Movie", "description": "The Global Precipitation Measurement mission (GPM) is a massive, multinational mission utilizing a fleet of spacecraft, sophisticated ground based data processing systems, and years of planning. To capture the essence of this immense undertaking and introduce it to broad audiences, NASA's GPM project office decided to do something out of the box. WATER FALLS is the result. Designed specifically for spherical screens, WATER FALLS abstracts the complex mechanics of the GPM mission, and explores the diversity of phenomena inherent to the water cycle. Presented in sensual, evocative, even surprising ways, WATER FALLS offers vital information about GPM's profound importance to everyone who lives on Earth. || ", "release_date": "2013-08-06T08:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:51:57.486247-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 463196, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011300/a011332/Water_Falls_Trailer_1920x800_h264_hiQual02077_print.jpg", "filename": "Water_Falls_Trailer_1920x800_h264_hiQual02077_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This is a trailer for the Science On a Sphere movie WATER FALLS. The trailer will play on conventional rectangular screens (like cell phones, computers, and televisions). The movie itself will only play on spherical screens. ", "width": 1022, "height": 426, "pixels": 435372 } } }, { "id": 412070, "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": 412071, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 10403, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10403/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "FROZEN: A Spherical Movie About the Cryosphere", "description": "NASA's home for spherical films on Magic Planet. Download the Magic Planet-ready movie file here.Released on March 27, 2009, FROZEN is NASA's second major production for the Science On a Sphere platform, a novel cinema-in-the-round technology developed by the Space Agency's sibling NOAA. Viewers see the Earth suspended in darkness as if it were floating in space. Moving across the planet's face, viewers see the undulating wisps of clouds, the ephemeral sweep of fallen snow, the churning crash of shifting ice, and more.FROZEN brings the Earth alive. Turning in space, the sphere becomes a portal onto a virtual planet, complete with churning, swirling depictions of huge natural forces moving below. FROZEN features the global cryosphere, those places on Earth where the temperature doesn't generally rise above water's freezing point. As one of the most directly observable climate gauges, the changing cryosphere serves as a proxy for larger themes.But just as thrilling as this unusual—and unusually realistic—look at the planet's structure and behavior is the sheer fun and fascination of looking at a spherically shaped movie. FROZEN bends the rules of cinema, revealing new ways to tell exciting, valuable stories of all kinds. The movie may be FROZEN, but the experience itself rockets along. || ", "release_date": "2009-03-12T12:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:54:53.135564-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 499199, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010400/a010403/FROZEN_Trailer_V3_SVS.01002_print.jpg", "filename": "FROZEN_Trailer_V3_SVS.01002_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Designed exclusively for playback on spherical projections surfaces, FROZEN introduces mainstream audiences to the cryosphere—places on Earth where the temperatures don't rise above water's freezing point. The following trailer showcases some of the visual themes contained in the movie and points to the film's main website.This film has been prepared exclusively for playback on spherical projections systems. It will not appear in its proper format on a traditional computer or television screen. If you are interested in dowloading the complete final movie file for spherical playback, please visit : ftp://public.sos.noaa.gov/extras/", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 412072, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4387, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4387/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "El Niño: Disrupting the Marine Food Web", "description": "This gallery was created for Earth Science Week 2015 and beyond. It includes a quick start guide for educators and first-hand stories (blogs) for learners of all ages by NASA visualizers, scientists and educators. We hope that your understanding and use of NASA's visualizations will only increase as your appreciation grows for the beauty of the science they portray, and the communicative power they hold. Read all the blogs and find educational resources for all ages at: the Earth Science Week 2015 page.In case you haven’t heard, El Niño is starting to make headlines this year. Often nicknamed \"the bad boy of weather,\" who is this guy?A long time ago, fishermen off the west coast of South America — one of the world's most productive fisheries — noticed that some years the fish disappeared. This was especially noticeable around Christmas time — giving it the name El Niño, which means Christ child in Spanish. Today we know why El Niño happens — but knowing when it will happen is still a challenge. Normally, winds blow from east to west along the equator, pushing surface water westward. As the water moves away from the east, nutrient-rich deeper ocean water rises to fill the void (called upwelling.) When nutrients rise into sunlight, they cause blooms of tiny plants called phytoplankton. These plants feed the entire marine food web from small fish such as sardines to bigger fish, sea birds, and marine mammals. When an El Niño develops, the normal east-to-west winds die and warm surface water from the west Pacific moves eastward. This stops the upwelling in the east. Without the supply of deeper, nutrient-rich water, less phytoplankton bloom and the fisheries collapse. From satellites in space we see how these changes impact the ocean’s color. Normally, the ocean looks more green along the equator (image below, left.) During El Niño, the ocean looks more blue and less green because there is less plant life (images below, right.) While this color change is subtle to our eyes, it means life or death for the species that depend upon plankton for food. Some animals starve (e.g. sea lions, marine iguanas, Galapagos penguins) while others move away to look for food elsewhere. || ", "release_date": "2015-10-13T17:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:49:13.616416-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 438703, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004300/a004387/Screenshot_from_2009_2015_sbs.png", "filename": "Screenshot_from_2009_2015_sbs.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The MODIS instrument on the Aqua satellite has been monitoring the color of the ocean's reflected light since 2002 to determine where plant life is photosynthesizing. A normal year (left) is compared to the El Niño developing during September, 2015 (right). 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Images of the Sun show its appearance in a number of locations, each oriented to the local horizon.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 412079, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4675, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4675/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Moon Phases for Spherical Displays", "description": "A looping animation showing a complete cycle of lunar phases (lunar day and night) designed for spherical displays. || phases.0001_print.jpg (1024x512) [106.9 KB] || phases.0001_searchweb.png (320x180) [64.4 KB] || phases.0001_thm.png (80x40) [4.3 KB] || sos_phases_1024p30.mp4 (2048x1024) [18.8 MB] || sos_phases_2048p30.mp4 (4096x2048) [54.9 MB] || sos_phases_512p30.mp4 (1024x512) [5.2 MB] || 4096x2048_2x1_30p (4096x2048) [32.0 KB] || sos_phases_512p30.webm (1024x512) [2.2 MB] || ", "release_date": "2018-07-31T09:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2024-09-29T22:37:35.441667-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 401626, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004600/a004675/phases.0001_print.jpg", "filename": "phases.0001_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "A looping animation showing a complete cycle of lunar phases (lunar day and night) designed for spherical displays.", "width": 1024, "height": 512, "pixels": 524288 } } }, { "id": 412080, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 12952, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12952/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "A Decade of Fermi TGFs", "description": "Visualization of ten years of Fermi observations of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs). This version is optimized for display on normal screens, has labels, and dates for each data pass. || u3540.png (4096x2048) [5.9 MB] || u3540_print.jpg (1024x512) [122.2 KB] || u3540_searchweb.png (320x180) [71.4 KB] || u3540_thm.png (80x40) [5.8 KB] || Fermi_TGF_Flat_Years_1080p.mov (1920x960) [73.6 MB] || Fermi_TGF_Flat_Years_1080p.webm (1920x960) [9.1 MB] || Fermi_TGF_Flat_Years_ProRes_4096x2048.mov (4096x2048) [8.4 GB] || Fermi_TGF_Flat_Years_4K.mp4 (4096x2048) [321.7 MB] || Fermi_TGF_Flat_Years_4K.mov (4096x2048) [303.4 MB] || Fermi_TGF_Flat_Years_1080p.mp4 (2160x1080) [161.2 MB] || ", "release_date": "2018-05-18T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:46:47.741088-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 404014, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012900/a012952/u3540_print.jpg", "filename": "u3540_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Visualization of ten years of Fermi observations of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs). This version is optimized for display on normal screens, has labels, and dates for each data pass.", "width": 1024, "height": 512, "pixels": 524288 } } }, { "id": 412081, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4554, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4554/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "August 21, 2017 Total Solar Eclipse Path for Spherical Displays", "description": "A map-like view of the Earth during the total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, showing the umbra (black oval), penumbra (concentric shaded ovals), and the path of totality (red). This equirectangular projection is suitable for spherical displays and for spherical mapping in 3D animation software. || eclipse.0800_print.jpg (1024x512) [113.6 KB] || eclipse.0800_searchweb.png (320x180) [65.4 KB] || eclipse.0800_thm.png (80x40) [6.0 KB] || eclipse_1024p15.mp4 (2048x1024) [31.2 MB] || eclipse_2048p15.mp4 (4096x2048) [85.6 MB] || eclipse_512p15.mp4 (1024x512) [9.6 MB] || 4096x2048_2x1_15p (4096x2048) [0 Item(s)] || eclipse_512p15.webm (1024x512) [8.4 MB] || ", "release_date": "2017-02-15T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-02-02T22:31:57.208403-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 416217, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004500/a004554/eclipse.0800_print.jpg", "filename": "eclipse.0800_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "A map-like view of the Earth during the total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, showing the umbra (black oval), penumbra (concentric shaded ovals), and the path of totality (red). This equirectangular projection is suitable for spherical displays and for spherical mapping in 3D animation software.", "width": 1024, "height": 512, "pixels": 524288 } } }, { "id": 412082, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4466, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4466/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Insolation during the 2017 Eclipse", "description": "Insolation (the amount of sunlight reaching the ground) is affected dramatically by the Moon's shadow during the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse. || usa_insol.0720_print.jpg (1024x576) [123.2 KB] || usa_insol.0720_searchweb.png (320x180) [75.0 KB] || usa_insol.0720_thm.png (80x40) [6.4 KB] || usa_insol_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [17.6 MB] || usa_insol_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [9.1 MB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || usa_insol_720p30.webm (1280x720) [4.8 MB] || usa_insol_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [53.2 MB] || usa_insol_360p30.mp4 (640x360) [3.1 MB] || 3840x2160_16x9_30p (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || ", "release_date": "2016-05-23T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-01-05T00:07:18.887809-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 424386, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004400/a004466/usa_insol.0720_print.jpg", "filename": "usa_insol.0720_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Insolation (the amount of sunlight reaching the ground) is affected dramatically by the Moon's shadow during the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 412083, "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": 412084, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4020, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4020/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Compositing Elements for Loop", "description": "This entry contains compositing layers used for the Science On a Sphere show \"Loop.\" || Mask for flow colors || sos_realistic.0001.jpg (2048x1024) [869.3 KB] || sos_realistic.0001_thm.png (80x40) [2.4 KB] || sos_realistic.0001_web.png (320x160) [87.7 KB] || sos_realistic.0001_searchweb.png (320x180) [87.7 KB] || sos_realistic_1024.webmhd.webm (960x540) [58.3 MB] || sos_flow_mask (2048x1024) [256.0 KB] || sos_realistic_1024.mp4 (2048x1024) [422.5 MB] || ", "release_date": "2011-12-12T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:53:23.521361-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 480487, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004000/a004020/sos_realistic.0001.jpg", "filename": "sos_realistic.0001.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Mask for flow colors", "width": 2048, "height": 1024, "pixels": 2097152 } } }, { "id": 412085, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3851, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3851/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "STEREO+SDO: Around the Sun for 81 Days", "description": "This is a sequence of 4Kx2K images, cylindrical-equidistant projection, of the Sun that can be mapped to a sphere. The sequence was assembled by combining 304 Ångstrom (extreme ultraviolet wavelength) images from STEREO-A, STEREO-B, and the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The series covers the time frame shortly after the STEREO spacecraft moved into a position where they had a complete view of the side of the Sun not visible from the Earth (see Sun 360).Technical DetailsThe data are sampled in time approximately every three hours. Since each spacecraft is at a slightly different distance from the Sun, the intensity received by each pixel was normalized to correspond to the intensity one astronomical unit from the Sun using the inverse-square law. The flux was also adjusted for the fact that each pixel captures a different fraction of the light due to their different angular size for each spacecraft. The image from each spacecraft is then reprojected using the World Coordinate System (WCS) routines of the SolarSoft library. Masks were made to smooth the transition where datasets overlap. There are a few gaps in the data, especially near the poles of the Sun, that are filled using data from the previous time step.Note: This sequence is suitable for animation and visualization purposes but NOT for scientific analysis. || ", "release_date": "2011-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:53:31.019436-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 483822, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003800/a003851/solarSphere304A.0200_searchweb.png", "filename": "solarSphere304A.0200_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This movie is 81 days of satellite data with near complete coverage of the solar sphere.", "width": 320, "height": 180, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 412086, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3636, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3636/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Hubble Space Telescope Observes the Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter", "description": "From July 16 through July 22, 1994, pieces of an object designated as Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter. This is the first collision of two solar system bodies ever to be observed, and the effects of the comet impacts on Jupiter's atmosphere have been simply spectacular and beyond expectations. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 consisted of at least 21 discernable fragments with diameters estimated at up to 2 kilometers. IMPORTANT NOTE: These images are for visualization purposes only. They are not suitable for scientific analysis. || ", "release_date": "2009-09-25T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:54:36.426235-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 498071, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003600/a003636/fullaug241994.jpg", "filename": "fullaug241994.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "A mosaic from the Hubble Space Telescope of Jupiter taken on August 24, 1994 - 33 days after the last impact.", "width": 2048, "height": 1024, "pixels": 2097152 } } }, { "id": 412087, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3608, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3608/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "One Thousand Earths Could Fit Inside Jupiter", "description": "This animation illustrates that it would take about 1000 Earths to fill a volume the size of Jupiter.This visualization was created in support of the Science On a Sphere film called \"LARGEST\" which is about Jupiter. The visualziation was choreographed to fit into \"LARGEST\" as a layer that is intended to be composited with other layers. In this case, mulitple layers are provided to make the it appear as if a sphere were filling up with Earths. These frames are in cylindrical equidistant projection and are intended to be viewed wrapped to a sphere. A sample composite of the layers is provided to show how the shot might be composed from the source layers. || ", "release_date": "2009-09-21T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:54:37.362827-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 497582, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003600/a003608/spherePack_newEarth_09.0001_print.jpg", "filename": "spherePack_newEarth_09.0001_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "1000 Earths fill Jupiter volume (layer 8)", "width": 2048, "height": 1024, "pixels": 2097152 } } }, { "id": 412088, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3579, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3579/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Sea Ice over the Arctic and Antarctic designed for Science On a Sphere (SOS) and WMS", "description": "Sea ice is frozen seawater floating on the surface of the ocean, typically averaging a few meters in thickness. Some sea ice is semi-permanent, persisting from year to year, and some is seasonal, melting and refreezing from season to season. This animation shows how the seasonal global sea ice has changed from day to day since 2002, when the Aqua satellite was launched. The AMSR-E instrument on the Aqua satellite acquires high resolution measurements of the 89 GHz brightness temperature and sea ice concentration near the poles. This sensor is able to observe the entire polar region every day, even through clouds and snowfall, because it is not very sensitive to atmospheric effects. The false color of the sea ice, derived from the AMSR-E 6.25 km 89 GHz brightness temperature, highlights the fissures or divergence areas in the sea ice cover by warm brightness temperatures (in blue) while cold brightness temperatures, shown in brighter white, represent consolidated sea ice. The sea ice edge identifies areas containing at least 15% ice concentration in the three-day moving average of the AMSR-E 12.5 km sea ice concentration data.This sequence shows the daily global sea ice over both the Arctic and Antarctic on a Cartesian grid from June 21, 2002 through December 31, 2008 at a frame rate of four frames per day. On days when data is not available, the prior or following day's data is used. Periods when data was absent for several consecutive days include: 2002/07/29 through 2002/08/08, 2002/09/11 through 2002/09/20, and 2003/10/29 through 2003/11/03. || ", "release_date": "2009-02-05T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:54:56.933707-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 500188, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003500/a003579/AMSR_E_SeaIce.7498_print.jpg", "filename": "AMSR_E_SeaIce.7498_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Sea ice on a cartesian grid with a transparent background.", "width": 4000, "height": 2000, "pixels": 8000000 } } }, { "id": 412089, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3481, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3481/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Minimum Sea Ice Comparison: 2005, 2007 and the 1979-2007 Average for Science On a Sphere (SOS)", "description": "Sea ice is frozen seawater floating on the surface of the ocean. Some sea ice is semi-permanent, persisting from year to year, and some is seasonal, melting and refreezing from season to season. The sea ice cover reaches its minimum extent at the end of each summer and the remaining ice is called the perennial ice cover. The 2007 Arctic summer sea ice reached the lowest extent of perennial ice cover on record - nearly 25% less than the previous low set in 2005. The area of the perennial ice has been steadily decreasing since the satellite record began in 1979, at a rate of about 10% per decade. But the 2007 minimum, reached on September 14, is far below the previous record made in 2005 and is about 38% lower than the climatological average. Such a dramatic loss has implications for ecology, climate and industry. A full global version of this animation was developed for a Science On a Sphere exhibit. The animation is shown on a plane with a geographic (lat/lon) projection, but has been rotated 90 degrees so that the Arctic is in the center of the image. The animation compares the difference between the perennial sea ice minimum extent on September 21, 2005 and September 14, 2007. Both years are compared with the 1979-2007 average minimum sea ice. || ", "release_date": "2008-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:55:01.399593-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 502353, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003400/a003481/SeaIceMin_2005_2007.1000.jpg", "filename": "SeaIceMin_2005_2007.1000.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This animation compares the minimum sea ice extent from 2005 and 2007 with the average minimum extent.", "width": 2048, "height": 1024, "pixels": 2097152 } } }, { "id": 412090, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3534, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3534/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Global Glacier Locations designed for Science On a Sphere (SOS) and WMS", "description": "This animation shows the locations of glaciers worldwide as semi-transparent markers that shrink over a time. Location data for the glaciers was collected from a wide variety of databases including the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) Glacier Database, the World Glacier Inventory, the West Greenland Glacier Inventory, the Antarctic Names Database, the Atlas of Canada and the Antarctic Digital database. In total, over 174,000 glaciers were identified. This set of glaciers was thinned spatially to retain only glaciers that were at least 1/4 degree away from other glacier locations in order to remove points that appeared coincident given the size of the location markers and the resolution of the images generated. Here, markers represent random locations where glaciers are found. Markers are stretched as required in latitude so that all markers appear circular when projected on the sphere. The markers begin as large and semi-transparent buttons, and change color, size and opacity over a period of 12 frames. || ", "release_date": "2008-08-13T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:55:11.552473-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 500995, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003500/a003534/world_glaciers_msk.0083.jpg", "filename": "world_glaciers_msk.0083.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This sequence shows random dots indicating the locations of glaciers around the world on a transparent background.", "width": 4000, "height": 2000, "pixels": 8000000 } } }, { "id": 412091, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3523, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3523/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Seasonal Landcover for Science On a Sphere", "description": "The Blue Marble Next Generation (BMNG) data set provides a monthly global cloud-free true-color picture of the Earth's land cover at a 500-meter spatial resolution. This series of images fades from month to month showing seasonal variations such as snowfall, spring greening and droughts in a seamless fashion. The data set,derived from monthly data collected in 2004, is shown on a flat cartesian grid. The ocean color is derived from applying a depth shading to the bathymetry data. Where available, the Antarctica coverage shown is the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA). || ", "release_date": "2008-01-07T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:55:30.456348-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 501541, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003500/a003523/SOS_BMarble_BG_09.0001.png", "filename": "SOS_BMarble_BG_09.0001.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Daily images showing a slow fade from month to month over the seasonal landcover data.", "width": 4000, "height": 2000, "pixels": 8000000 } } }, { "id": 412092, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3564, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3564/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Sea Ice over the Arctic and Antarctic designed for Science On a Sphere (SOS) and WMS", "description": "Sea ice is frozen seawater floating on the surface of the ocean, typically averaging a few meters in thickness. Some sea ice is semi-permanent, persisting from year to year, and some is seasonal, melting and refreezing from season to season. This animation shows how the seasonal global sea ice has changed from day to day in both the northern and southern hemisphere since 2002, when the Aqua satellite was launched.This series shows the daily global sea ice over both the Arctic and Antarctic from June 21, 2002 through September 22, 2008. Global data from the AMSR-E instrument on the Aqua satellite is shown on a Cartesian grid. The sea ice extent is derived from the daily AMSR-E 12.5 km sea ice concentration where the ice concentration is above 15%. || ", "release_date": "2008-01-06T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:55:30.652708-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 501011, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003500/a003564/AMSR_E_SeaIce.0300.png", "filename": "AMSR_E_SeaIce.0300.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Daily sea ice from 6/21/2002 through 9/22/2008 shown at a rate of 1 frame per day with a transparent background.", "width": 4000, "height": 2000, "pixels": 8000000 } } }, { "id": 412093, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3507, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3507/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "2005 Sea Ice over the Arctic and Antarctic derived from AMSR-E (WMS and Science On a Sphere)", "description": "Sea ice is frozen seawater floating on the surface of the ocean, typically averaging a few meters in thickness. Some sea ice is semi-permanent, persisting from year to year, and some is seasonal, melting and refreezing from season to season. This series shows the global sea ice throughout 2005, when the maximum extent occurred on March 7th and the minimum extent occurred on September 21st. Here global data from the AMSR-E instrument on the Aqua satellite is shown on a Cartesian grid. The false color in these images is derived from the daily AMSR-E 6.25 km 89 GHz brightness temperature while the sea ice extent is derived from the daily AMSR-E 12.5 km sea ice concentration. || ", "release_date": "2008-01-06T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:55:30.563534-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 506442, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003500/a003507/seaIce_2005.0101.png", "filename": "seaIce_2005.0101.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Global daily AMSR-E Sea Ice for 2005 with one frame shown per day.This product is available through our Web Map Service.", "width": 1024, "height": 512, "pixels": 524288 } } }, { "id": 412094, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3837, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3837/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Components of the Water Cycle on a Flat Map for Science On a Sphere", "description": "Water regulates climate, predominately storing heat during the day and releasing it at night. Water in the ocean and atmosphere carry heat from the tropics to the poles. The process by which water moves around the earth, from the ocean, to the atmosphere, to the land and back to the ocean is called the water cycle. The animations below each portray a component of the water cycle. These animations of the components of the water cycle were created for the Science On a Sphere production \"Loop\" using data from the GEOS-5 atmospheric model on the cubed-sphere, run at 14-km global resolution for 25-days. Variables animated here include hourly clouds, precipitation, evaporation and water vapor. For more information on GEOS-5 see https://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/systems/geos5. Some of these visualizations are an orthographic view of the data used in Components of the Water Cycle. || ", "release_date": "2011-06-13T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-01-08T15:06:32.917772-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 1140641, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003800/a003837/clouds.0350_print.jpg", "filename": "clouds.0350_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Global cloud cover on a flat map with transparency", "width": 1024, "height": 512, "pixels": 524288 } } }, { "id": 412095, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4085, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4085/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Water Falls (Science On a Sphere show): Hurricane Sandy", "description": "Hurricane Sandy segment for the GPM Science On a Sphere (SOS) show titled \"Water Falls\". The hurricane visualization is generated from GEOS-5 model output spanning October 26, 2012 to November 2, 2012 and repeated on the globe three times. || ", "release_date": "2013-09-02T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:51:53.623577-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 464244, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004000/a004085/sandycomp_v09b.0080.jpg", "filename": "sandycomp_v09b.0080.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Sample composite of the Hurricane Sandy segment for the SOS show \"Water Falls\". Hurricane Sandy is multiplied three times around the globe so that it can be seen by all visitors of a SOS exhibit.", "width": 2000, "height": 1000, "pixels": 2000000 } } }, { "id": 412096, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3881, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3881/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Thermohaline Circulation on a Flat Map", "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 flows in this visualization are based on current theories of the thermohaline circulation rather than actual data or computational model runs. 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 and simulate.This visualization was produced for the Science On a Sphere production \"Loop\". It is intended to be over-layed on a world map background. Below are 3 sets of 4 sequences. The first set of 4 sequences are all composited over a world map background with a limited number of frames that make them loopable (with a very slight jump at the point where the looping happens). This is primarily provided for real-time displays such as hyperwall systems. The 4 sequences are: all depth layers combined, shallow depths, middle depths, and deep depths.The second set is the same as the first set except that the layers are not composited over the background and instead include and alpha channel. The third layer is actually the frames that were used in the film \"Loop\" and consist of a large number of continuous, seamless frames. Each sequence is as before, all layers, shallow, middle, and deep layers all with alpha channels.The depth layers nominally correspond to the following ranges below sea level: shallow (0m - 600m), middle (1875m - 2500m), and deep (3000m - 4000m). These depths do vary with bathymetry. So, in areas where the sea floor is not very deep, these depths are scaled so that the flows do not interesct the sea floor or each other. || ", "release_date": "2011-12-09T15:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-02-02T22:03:56.369203-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 482343, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003800/a003881/loop_thermo_all_layers.0001.tif.png", "filename": "loop_thermo_all_layers.0001.tif.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "All 3 thermohaline layers (shallow, middle, and deep) composited over the Earth background. This version can be looped.", "width": 2048, "height": 1024, "pixels": 2097152 } } }, { "id": 412097, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3908, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3908/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "ECCO2 Sea Surface Temperature and Flows", "description": "Generated for Science On a Sphere show \"Loop\". This animation depicts the part of Earth's ocean circulation model that involves heat transfer.In the polar latitudes the ocean loses heat to the atmosphere. Near the equator ocean water warms, and because it is less dense, it remains close to the surface. Cast away from the planet's equator by the winds and Earth's rotation, warm equatorial waters travel on or near the surface of the globe outward toward high latitudes. But as water loses heat to the increasingly cold atmosphere far away from the equator it sinks and pushes other water out of the way. Endlessly, this pump known as Meridional Overturning Circulation, circulates water and heat around the globe. Considering that the ocean stores exponentially more heat than the atmosphere and the fact that they're always in direct contact with each other, there's a strong relationship between oceanic heat and atmospheric circulation. || ", "release_date": "2012-02-08T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:53:16.371747-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 479345, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003900/a003908/ecco2sst_comp.1600.jpg", "filename": "ecco2sst_comp.1600.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Example composite animation of ECCO2 Ocean Surface Flows over ECCO2 Sea Surface Temperatures.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 2048, "height": 1024, "pixels": 2097152 } } }, { "id": 412098, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4245, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4245/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Link between Sea-Ice Fraction and Absorbed Solar Radiation over the Arctic Ocean", "description": "NASA satellite instruments have observed a marked increase in solar radiation absorbed in the Arctic since the year 2000 – a trend that aligns with the drastic decrease in Arctic sea ice during the same period. This visual shows the Arctic Sea Ice Change and the corresponding Absorbed Solar Radiation Change during June, July, and August from 2000 through 2014.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || seaice_solarAbsorption_0344_print.jpg (1024x576) [117.1 KB] || SeaIceSolarAbsorptionChange.webm (1920x1080) [1.2 MB] || 1920x1080_16x9_60p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || SeaIceSolarAbsorptionChange.mp4 (1920x1080) [12.1 MB] || composite (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || source (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || SeaIceSolarAbsorptionChange.m4v (640x360) [2.1 MB] || ", "release_date": "2014-12-17T13:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-01-05T22:41:17.921246-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 448277, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004200/a004245/SeaIceSolarRadiationComparison_print.jpg", "filename": "SeaIceSolarRadiationComparison_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Side by side comparison of Sea-Ice Fraction and TOA Absorbed Solar Radiation Change", "width": 1024, "height": 315, "pixels": 322560 } } }, { "id": 432663, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 5304, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5304/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Sea Level Through a Porthole (2023) for Science-on-a-Sphere", "description": "This visualization watches the global mean sea level change through a circular window. The blue mark on the ruler shows the exact measurements of the Integrated Multi-Mission Ocean Altimeter Data for Climate Research. The level of the animated water changes more smoothly, driven by a 60-day floating average of the same data.When played on a standard 68\" Science-on-a-Sphere display, the measurement markings in the video are accurate to the real world.", "release_date": "2024-05-30T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-07-03T17:04:27.499336-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 1092950, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a005300/a005304/seaLevelWaveTank_sos_5-29-2024a.01500_print.jpg", "filename": "seaLevelWaveTank_sos_5-29-2024a.01500_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This visualization watches the global mean sea level change through a circular window. The blue mark on the ruler shows the exact measurements of the Integrated Multi-Mission Ocean Altimeter Data for Climate Research. The level of the animated water changes more smoothly, driven by a 60-day floating average of the same data.When played on a standard 68\" Science-on-a-Sphere display, the measurement markings in the video are accurate to the real world.", "width": 1024, "height": 512, "pixels": 524288 } } }, { "id": 432664, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 5207, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5207/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2023", "description": "This color-coded map in Robinson projection displays a progression of changing global surface temperature anomalies. Normal temperatures are shown in white. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower than normal temperatures are shown in blue. Normal temperatures are calculated over the 30 year baseline period 1951-1980. The maps are averages over a running 24 month window. The final frame represents global temperature anomalies in 2023. || 2023GISTEMP_Map.00899_print.jpg (1024x576) [138.7 KB] || 2023GISTEMP_Map.00899_searchweb.png (320x180) [66.6 KB] || 2023GISTEMP_Map.00899_thm.png (80x40) [6.4 KB] || 2023GISTEMP_Map.00899_web.png (320x180) [65.9 KB] || 2023GISTEMP_Map_HD.mp4 (1920x1080) [57.2 MB] || 3840x2160_16x9_30p (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || 2023GISTEMP_Map.mp4 (3840x2160) [114.3 MB] || earth_observations_5x3.hwshow || ", "release_date": "2024-01-12T11:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-01-08T13:56:34-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 1088347, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a005200/a005207/2023GISTEMP_Map.00899_print.jpg", "filename": "2023GISTEMP_Map.00899_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This color-coded map in Robinson projection displays a progression of changing global surface temperature anomalies. Normal temperatures are shown in white. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower than normal temperatures are shown in blue. Normal temperatures are calculated over the 30 year baseline period 1951-1980. The maps are averages over a running 24 month window. The final frame represents global temperature anomalies in 2023.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 432665, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 5208, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5208/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "2023 Temperature Measurements", "description": "The locations of the temperature measurements that were used in the 2023 GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (v4). The data on land comes from the weather stations that make up the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN). 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", "width": 1024, "height": 1024, "pixels": 1048576 } } }, { "id": 432666, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 5236, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5236/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "5000 Years of Total Solar Eclipses: The Movie", "description": "An animated heatmap showing the accumulation of total solar eclipse paths over the 5000 years from 2000 BCE to 3000 CE. || heatmap.0090_print.jpg (1024x576) [282.2 KB] || heatmap.0090_searchweb.png (320x180) [93.8 KB] || heatmap.0090_thm.png (80x40) [7.5 KB] || heatmap_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [20.0 MB] || heatmap_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [38.1 MB] || 3840x2160_16x9_30p (3840x2160) [64.0 KB] || heatmap_360p30.mp4 (640x360) [6.2 MB] || heatmap_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [120.6 MB] || ", "release_date": "2024-03-13T17:30:00-04:00", "update_date": "2024-03-22T13:01:24.262835-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 1090194, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a005200/a005236/heatmap.0090_print.jpg", "filename": "heatmap.0090_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "An animated heatmap showing the accumulation of total solar eclipse paths over the 5000 years from 2000 BCE to 3000 CE. ", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 432662, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 5273, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5273/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Tagged by Source for Science-on-a-Sphere", "description": "Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most prevalent greenhouse gas driving global climate change. However, its increase in the atmosphere would be even more rapid without land and ocean carbon sinks, which collectively absorb about half of human emissions every year. Advanced computer modeling techniques in NASA's Global Modeling and Assimilation Office allow us to disentangle the influences of sources and sinks and to better understand where carbon is coming from and going to.", "release_date": "2024-04-22T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-07-09T17:25:19.927673-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 1091430, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a005200/a005273/SOS_TaggedCO2_10-6-2023a_co2_foursources_quality_ScienceOnASphere_copied.00001_print.jpg", "filename": "SOS_TaggedCO2_10-6-2023a_co2_foursources_quality_ScienceOnASphere_copied.00001_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This visualization shows the CO2 being added to Earth's atmosphere over the course of the year 2021, split into four major contributors: fossil fuels in orange, burning biomass in red, land ecosystems in green, and the ocean in blue. The dots on the surface also show how atmospheric carbon dioxide is also being absorbed by land ecosystems in green and the ocean in blue. Though the land and oceans are each carbon sinks in a global sense, individual locations can be sources at different times.", "width": 1024, "height": 512, "pixels": 524288 } } }, { "id": 488991, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 5121, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5121/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "ODIAC: a map of human made carbon dioxide emissions", "description": "ODIAC (Open-source Data Inventory for Anthropogenic CO2) map for December 2021. || odiac_2023_2160p60.00001_print.jpg (1024x1024) [310.4 KB] || odiac_2023_2160p60.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [64.3 KB] || odiac_2023_2160p60.00001_thm.png (80x40) [5.2 KB] || 2160x2160_1x1_60p (2160x2160) [0 Item(s)] || odiac_2023_2160p60.mp4 (2160x2160) [126.7 MB] ||", "release_date": "2023-06-30T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-05-29T14:20:05.512646-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 856383, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a005100/a005121/odiac_2023_2160p60.00001_print.jpg", "filename": "odiac_2023_2160p60.00001_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "ODIAC (Open-source Data Inventory for Anthropogenic CO2) map for December 2021.", "width": 1024, "height": 1024, "pixels": 1048576 } } } ], "extra_data": {} } ] }