The Terra/MODIS project has released a beautiful set of Blue Marble imagery. The data is place on a globe and rotated. ||

The Terra/MODIS project has released a beautiful set of Blue Marble imagery. The data is place on a globe and rotated. ||

Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at the Goddard Space Flight Center present you with a collection of American cities in a way you have never seen them before. Starting with our camera high above the Earth, we rush in towards the surface at what would be an impossible speed for any known vehicle. Passing though layers of atmosphere, the colors of our destinations shimmer with their own unique characteristics, and suddenly we find ourselves floating in virtual space just above the ground. ||

This video introduced the latest in high-performance computing and communications and the best of host city Baltimore to keynote address attendees at the SuperComputing 2002 (SC2002) conference on Tuesday, November 19, 2002. || a002641.00010_print.png (720x480) [597.0 KB] || a002641_pre.jpg (320x262) [15.2 KB] || SVS2002-0034_The_SC2002_Conference_Opening_Video.webmhd.webm (960x540) [106.4 MB] || SVS2002-0034_The_SC2002_Conference_Opening_Video.mov (720x480) [1.6 GB] || a002641.dv (720x480) [1.4 GB] || a002641.mp4 (640x480) [82.9 MB] || a002641.mpg (320x240) [72.2 MB] ||

Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at the Goddard Space Flight Center present you with a collection of American cities in a way you have never seen them before. Starting with our camera high above the Earth, we rush in towards the surface at what would be an impossible speed for any known vehicle. Passing though layers of atmosphere, the colors of our destinations shimmer with their own unique characteristics, and suddenly we find ourselves floating in virtual space just above the ground. Special thanks to Digital Globe and Space Imaging for providing the highest reolution data sets used. This animation was produced to accompany the NASA/Columbia tribute during the Super Bowl XXXVIII pregame show. ||

The fundamental problem of the deformation of the Earth involves stress conditions on the basis of the crust caused by the mantle convection. Based on decades of satellite gravity data, a harmonic analytical model of the convection flow has been developed at GSFC. The magnitudes and directions of the resultant stresses in the crust were obtained at 64,000 grid points for each of 18 layers from 150 km to 600 km under the Earth. In this project, we explored three dimensional volumetric visualization methods for the data. To overcome the typical volumetric visualization obstacles such as enormous amount of data and opacity of objects in the scene, we developed an interactive and transparent isosurface model to render the volumetric data. a) Animated isosurfaces of earth stress below Hawaii. The blue objects indicate the shape of the stress distribution and the yellow objects indicate the high stress areas. b) Interactive global earth stress. To view the model, please use the QuickTime Player (similarly, please select the QuickTime version of the movie). Hold the left button and drag the mouse horizontally to view areas on the earth at the same depth. Hold the left button and drag the mouse vertically to view the different layers of the stress distributions inside the earth, between 150 km to 600 km deep. ||

The Blue Marble Next Generation (BMNG) data set provides a monthly global cloud-free true-color picture of the Earth's landcover at a 500-meter spatial resolution. This data set, shown on a globe, is derived from monthly data collected in 2004. The ocean color is derived from applying a depth shading to the bathymetry data. The Antarctica coverage shown is the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica. ||

The MODIS instruments on the Terra and Aqua satellites take multi-spectral images of the Earth daily. This realistic, cloudy Earth is a composite of MODIS imagery from March 3, 2009. This animation reveals a transition from the MODIS view of Earth to the Blue Marble image, to allow a look at the planet without clouds. The Blue Marble Next Generation (BMNG) data set provides a monthly global cloud-free true-color picture of the Earth's landcover at a 500-meter spatial resolution. This data set, shown on a globe, is derived from monthly data collected in 2004. The ocean color is derived from applying a depth shading to the bathymetry data. The Antarctica coverage shown is the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica. ||

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Michelle Handleman meets some of the participants of the GLOBE program's science fair. || GLOBE_Science_Fair_thumbnail_print.jpg (1024x574) [150.2 KB] || GLOBE_Science_Fair_thumbnail.png (2556x1434) [5.3 MB] || GLOBE_Science_Fair_thumbnail_searchweb.png (320x180) [118.4 KB] || GLOBE_Science_Fair_thumbnail_web.png (320x179) [118.5 KB] || GLOBE_Science_Fair_thumbnail_thm.png (80x40) [11.4 KB] || GLOBE_Science_Fair.mov (1280x720) [3.3 GB] || GLOBE_Science_Fair_YouTube.mp4 (1280x720) [377.6 MB] || GLOBE_Science_Fair_YouTube.webm (1280x720) [24.8 MB] || globe_caption.en_US.srt [4.6 KB] || globe_caption.en_US.vtt [4.6 KB] || GLOBE_Science_Fair_lowres.mp4 (480x272) [32.3 MB] ||