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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. || ", "hits": 103 }, { "id": 30003, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30003/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2012-07-17T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth's City Lights", "description": "This image of Earth's city lights at night shows the spatial distribution, or arrangement, of human settlements. White areas of light show urbanized areas where population is typically large. As you look at the image, you can see the pattern of this distribution. Cities are along coastlines and transportation networks.The image was created with data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS). The OLS sensor orbits Earth, acquiring one swath, or area, of data at a time. The swaths are processed to find non-cloudy picture elements, or pixels. Over the course of a year, all non-cloudy pixels for a particular location on Earth are averaged to produce a global grayscale image. The color image you see in this image is created by combining the grayscale DMSP image with a version of the Blue Marble: Next Generation (BMNG) image that is modified to appear more \"night-like.\" || dmsp_4096.png (4096x2048) [26.7 MB] || earth_lights_print.jpg (1024x512) [86.2 KB] || dmsp_4096_web.jpg (320x160) [40.5 KB] || dmsp_4096_thm.png (80x40) [22.7 MB] || dmsp_4096_web_searchweb.jpg (320x180) [8.4 KB] || dmsp_4096.tif (4096x2048) [54.0 MB] || earth_lights_4800.tif (4800x2400) [6.7 MB] || bigimage-earthatnight.hwshow [175 bytes] || ", "hits": 882 }, { "id": 3836, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3836/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-06-29T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO at the June 15, 2011 Lunar Eclipse: View from the Moon", "description": "For Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), the lunar eclipse on June 15, 2011 is likely to be the longest and darkest of its life. This matters because LRO relies on sunlight to power its systems and instruments. Although it spends half of every orbit on the night side of the Moon, each night side pass lasts only an hour. For the June 15 eclipse, LRO will be in the dark for more than twice as long.During a previous total eclipse, LRO hibernated, turning off all of its instruments to conserve its battery power until the Moon emerged from the Earth's shadow. For the June 15 event, LRO will leave on the Diviner Lunar Radiometry Experiment. Diviner will measure the cooling of the Moon's surface during the eclipse. This unique temperature record is expected to reveal information about the roughness and composition of the swath of lunar surface visible to Diviner's sensors during the eclipse.The visualization archived on this page shows the view of the eclipse from the Moon, looking back toward the Earth and the Sun. On the Moon, this event is a solar eclipse. As the Sun disappears behind the Earth, the umbral shadow sweeps across the lunar landscape, and as our eyes adjust to the darkness, the stars come out, and the lunar surface looks a dull red. The atmosphere of the Earth lights up as a red ring around the planet, the sunrises and sunsets all around the edge of the globe lending their faint light to the Moon while the Sun is otherwise blocked. At the start of the eclipse, Australia is facing us, but over time, the Moon sets in eastern Australia while southern Africa rotates into view. LRO streaks through the frame several times on its orbit 50 kilometers above the Moon's surface.Other visualizations in this series depict the view of the eclipsealong the shadow line, with the figures of the umbra, penumbra, and lunar and solar pathsthrough a telescope on Earthflying above LRO as Diviner takes temperature measurementsA narrated piece that uses these visualizations is available in entry #10794. For an explanation of lunar eclipses, visit entry #10787. || ", "hits": 231 }, { "id": 10403, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10403/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-03-12T12:00:00-04:00", "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. || ", "hits": 57 }, { "id": 3437, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3437/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2007-07-22T00:00:00-04:00", "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). || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 3363, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3363/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2006-07-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Lights of Earth: Full Spin in High Resolution", "description": "The Lights of Earth can be seen from space. Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas of the Earth's surface, including the seaboards of Europe, the eastern United States, and Japan. Many large cities are located near rivers or oceans so that they can exchange goods cheaply by boat. Particularly dark areas include the central parts of South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The 'Earth at Night' picture is actually a composite of hundreds of images made by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP). DMSP currently operates four satellites carrying the Operational Linescan System (OLS) in low-altitude polar orbits. Three of these satellites record nighttime data. The DMSP-OLS has a unique capability to detect low levels of visible-near infrared (VNIR) radiance at night. With the OLS 'VIS' band data it is possible to detect clouds illuminated by moonlight, plus lights from cities, towns, industrial sites, gas flares, and ephemeral events such as fires and lightning-illuminated clouds. The Nighttime Lights of the World data set is compiled from the October 1994 - March 1995 DMSP nighttime data collected when moonlight was low. Using the OLS thermal infrared band, areas containing clouds were removed and the remaining area used in the time series.A lower resolution version of this same animation can be found here. || ", "hits": 62 }, { "id": 3073, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3073/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-12-12T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "NO2 Concentration Over the United States: September 24 - November 7, 2004", "description": "Nitrogen dioxide, NO2, is a traffic-related pollutant. Emissions are generally highest in urban rather than rural areas. Annual mean concentrations of nitrogen dioxide in urban areas are generally in the range 10-45 ppb, and lower in rural areas. Levels vary significantly throughout the day, with peaks generally occurring twice daily as a consequence of rush hour traffic. Concentrations can be as high as 200 ppb. Particulate matter is very fine and can be carried deep into the lungs where they can cause inflammation and a worsening of the condition of people with heart and lung disease. Further, the problem is not necessarily concentrated in the inner cities. Because many major road / motorway interchange complexes are situated in semi-rural areas, under conditions of near-stationary traffic, a rapid build-up of engine exhaust pollution can occur, which if the low-level atmospheric conditions are correct, will not be dispersed. || ", "hits": 42 }, { "id": 3074, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3074/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-12-12T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Nitrogen Dioxide Concentration Over China: September 24 - November 7, 2004", "description": "Nitrogen dioxide, NO2, is a traffic-related pollutant. Emissions are generally highest in urban rather than rural areas. Annual mean concentrations of nitrogen dioxide in urban areas are generally in the range 10-45 ppb, and lower in rural areas. Levels vary significantly throughout the day, with peaks generally occurring twice daily as a consequence of rush hour traffic. Concentrations can be as high as 200 ppb. Particulate matter is very fine and can be carried deep into the lungs where they can cause inflammation and a worsening of the condition of people with heart and lung disease. Further, the problem is not necessarily concentrated in the inner cities. Because many major road / motorway interchange complexes are situated in semi-rural areas, under conditions of near-stationary traffic, a rapid build-up of engine exhaust pollution can occur, which if the low-level atmospheric conditions are correct, will not be dispersed. || ", "hits": 12 }, { "id": 2396, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2396/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-03-06T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Lights of Earth: United States", "description": "The Lights of Earth can be seen from space. Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas of the Earth's surface, including the seaboards of Europe, the eastern United States, and Japan. Many large cities are located near rivers or oceans so that they can exchange goods cheaply by boat. Particularly dark areas include the central parts of South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The above image is actually a composite of hundreds of pictures made by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) currently operates four satellites carrying the Operational Linescan System (OLS) in low-altitude polar orbits. Three of these satellites record nighttime data. The DMSP-OLS has a unique capability to detect low levels of visible-near infrared (VNIR) radiance at night. With the OLS 'VIS' band data it is possible to detect clouds illuminated by moonlight, plus lights from cities, towns, industrial sites, gas flares, and ephemeral events such as fires and lightning-illuminated clouds. The Nighttime Lights of the World data set is compiled from the October 1994 - March 1995 DMSP nighttime data collected when moonlight was low. Using the OLS thermal infrared band, areas containing clouds were removed and the remaining area used in the time series. || ", "hits": 67 }, { "id": 2397, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2397/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-03-06T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Lights of Earth: Full Spin", "description": "The Lights of Earth can be seen from space. Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas of the Earth's surface, including the seaboards of Europe, the eastern United States, and Japan. Many large cities are located near rivers or oceans so that they can exchange goods cheaply by boat. Particularly dark areas include the central parts of South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The above image is actually a composite of hundreds of pictures made by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) currently operates four satellites carrying the Operational Linescan System (OLS) in low-altitude polar orbits. Three of these satellites record nighttime data. The DMSP-OLS has a unique capability to detect low levels of visible-near infrared (VNIR) radiance at night. With the OLS 'VIS' band data it is possible to detect clouds illuminated by moonlight, plus lights from cities, towns, industrial sites, gas flares, and ephemeral events such as fires and lightning-illuminated clouds. The Nighttime Lights of the World data set is compiled from the October 1994 - March 1995 DMSP nighttime data collected when moonlight was low. Using the OLS thermal infrared band, areas containing clouds were removed and the remaining area used in the time series. || ", "hits": 24 }, { "id": 2276, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2276/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-10-19T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth at Night 2001", "description": "This is what the Earth looks like at night. Can you find your favorite country or city? Surprisingly, city lights make this task quite possible. Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas of the Earth's surface, including the seaboards of Europe, the eastern United States, and Japan. Many large cities are located near rivers or oceans so that they can exchange goods cheaply by boat. Particularly dark areas include the central parts of South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The above image is actually a composite of hundreds of pictures made by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) currently operates four satellites carrying the Operational Linescan System (OLS) in low-altitude polar orbits. Three of these satellites record nighttime data. The DMSP-OLS has a unique capability to detect low levels of visible-near infrared (VNIR) radiance at night. With the OLS 'VIS' band data it is possible to detect clouds illuminated by moonlight, plus lights from cities, towns, industrial sites, gas flares, and ephemeral events such as fires and lightning-illuminated clouds.The Nighttime Lights of the World data set is compiled from the October 1994 - March 1995 DMSP nighttime data collected when moonlight was low. Using the OLS thermal infrared band, areas containing clouds were removed and the remaining area used in the time series. This animation is derived from an image created by Craig Mayhew and Robert Simmon from data provided by Christopher Elvidge of the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center. || ", "hits": 259 } ] }