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This visualization was designed to closely match a GOES satellite image for comparison purposes. || ", "hits": 53 }, { "id": 3639, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3639/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-10-08T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Rotating Blue Marble", "description": "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. || ", "hits": 338 }, { "id": 3640, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3640/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-10-08T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Rotating Cloudy Galileo Transitions to Blue Marble View", "description": "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. || ", "hits": 63 }, { "id": 3643, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3643/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-10-08T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hourly Atmospheric Water Vapor from the GEOS-5 Model", "description": "These three animations portray the hourly flow of atmospheric water vapor around the world. The animations were created using data from the GEOS-5 atmospheric model on the cubed-sphere, run at 14-km global resolution for 30-days. For more information on the GEOS-5, see http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/systems/geos5 . For more information on the cubed-sphere work, see http://sivo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cubedsphere_overview.html. || ", "hits": 29 }, { "id": 3645, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3645/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-10-08T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hourly Total Precipitation from the GEOS-5 Model", "description": "This animation portrays the hourly flow of precipitation around the world. The animation was created using data from the GEOS-5 atmospheric model on the cubed-sphere, run at 14-km global resolution for 30-days. For more information on the GEOS-5, see http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/systems/geos5 . For more information on the cubed-sphere work, see http://sivo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cubedsphere_overview.html. || ", "hits": 14 }, { "id": 3183, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3183/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-07-05T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Great Zoom into the Houston Museum of Natural Science", "description": "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. || ", "hits": 14 }, { "id": 3028, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3028/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-01-12T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "A 3-Dimensional Model of the Magnetosphere (WMS)", "description": "The earth's magnetosphere protects the earth from high-energy charged particles coming from the sun. Some charged particles are deflected by the magnetosphere, while others become trapped and produce the aurora. This presentation shows a 3-dimensional model of the magnetosphere. The features that it highlights are flat ribbons representing the paths of charged particles deflected by the magnetosphere, triangular ribbons representing magnetic field lines, and colored surfaces representing constant values of magnetic force. The original model is in Open Inventor format, and is available here. || ", "hits": 46 }, { "id": 3041, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3041/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-11-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Lunar Fly By and Earth Approach", "description": "This is an animation flying over the surface of the moon then approaching the earth. It was created in support of a presentation at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) in October 2004. Scales are not accurate in this visualization. The Earth is about 3 times larger than it would actually appear. The source of the moon texture is unknown; it is thought to be a composite from several missions. The Earth texture was captured as the Galileo spacecraft swung by the Earth in 1990 for a gravity assist on its way to Jupiter. || ", "hits": 26 }, { "id": 3042, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3042/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-11-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Lunar Beauty Shot", "description": "This is a beauty shot animation flying over the surface of the moon created in support of a series of live interviews about the 2004 lunar eclipse.Scales are not accurate in this visualization. The Earth is about 3 times larger than it would actually appear. The source of the moon texture is unknown; it is thought to be a composite from several missions. The Earth texture was captured as the Galileo spacecraft swung by the Earth in 1990 for a gravity assist on its way to Jupiter. || ", "hits": 19 }, { "id": 2933, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2933/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-10-01T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Mission Proposal: Polar GOES-like spacecraft (beauty shot)", "description": "This visualization was created to support a mission proposal led by Lars Peter Riishojgaard. This mission would fly a GOES-like spacecraft in a polar elliptical orbit around the Earth providing a large percentage of observing time for northern polar regions. This version of the visualization is a beauty shot first showing the orbit from afar, then moving into the orbital plane and riding the orbit as the spacecraft would. || ", "hits": 15 }, { "id": 2934, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2934/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-10-01T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Mission Proposal: Polar GOES-like Spacecraft (Riding the Spacecraft - Animated Clouds)", "description": "This visualization was created to support a mission proposal led by Lars Peter Riishojgaard. This mission would fly a GOES-like spacecraft in a polar elliptical orbit around the Earth providing a large percentage of observing time for northern polar regions. This version of the visualization has the camera riding the orbit as the spacecraft would with GOES clouds animating on the Earth. The clouds are constantly lit so as to provide an infra-red (IR) type of view. || ", "hits": 18 }, { "id": 2935, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2935/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-10-01T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Mission Proposal: Polar GOES-like Spacecraft (Riding the Spacecraft - Animated Swaths)", "description": "This visualization was created to support a mission proposal led by Lars Peter Riishojgaard. This mission would fly a GOES-like spacecraft in a polar elliptical orbit around the Earth providing a large percentage of observing time for northern polar regions. This version of the visualization has the camera riding the orbit as the spacecraft would with a MODIS swath and GOES footprint animating. The MODIS swath is colored red, and the GOES footprint is colored light gray. This shows how this proposal would provide more continuous coverage of north polar regions than MODIS and GOES can provide. || ", "hits": 20 }, { "id": 2988, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2988/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-09-07T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Antarctic Ozone from TOMS: August 1, 2003 to November 27, 2003", "description": "The 2003 Antarctic ozone hole was the second largest ever observed, according to scientists from NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). The Antarctic ozone 'hole' is defined as thinning of the ozone layer over the continent to levels significantly below pre-1979 levels. Ozone blocks harmful ultraviolet 'B' rays. Loss of stratospheric ozone has been linked to skin cancer in humans and other adverse biological effects on plants and animals. The size of the 2003 Antarctic ozone hole reached 10.9 million square miles on September 11, 2003, slightly larger than the North American continent, but smaller than the largest ever recorded, on September 10, 2000, when it covered 11.5 million square miles. This animation is an update to animation ID 2809 — this version includes about 2 additional months of data. || ", "hits": 56 }, { "id": 2989, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2989/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-09-07T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "The 2003 Antarctic Ozone Hole", "description": "TOMS provides dramatic visual evidence of the annual growth and decay of the Antarctic ozone hole. The ozone losses over Antarctica result from reactions with the products of man-made chlorine and bromine compounds. Because of the tilt of the Earth's axis, continuous darkness falls at the South Pole from March 21 to September 21. The dark region in the middle of the July 1 total ozone picture is polar night, where TOMS cannot make measurements. Ozone losses are in blue. Beginning in August, returning sunlight reaches the edges of Antarctica providing chlorine and bromine compounds with energy to rapidly destroy ozone. By mid September, the ozone loss peaks, creating an ozone hole over Antarctic. or more information see http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2003/1208toms.html || ", "hits": 62 }, { "id": 2971, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2971/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-08-13T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Galileo Earth Views (WMS)", "description": "The Galileo spacecraft was launched from the Space Shuttle Atlantis on October 18, 1989 on a six-year trip to Jupiter. On the way, the trajectory of the spacecraft took it past Venus once and Earth twice. Galileo took the Earth images in this animation just after the first flyby of the Earth, on December 11 and 12, 1990. This six-hour sequence of images taken two minutes apart clearly shows how the Earth looks from space and how fast (or slow) the cloud features change when looked at from a distance. The path of the sun can be seen crossing Australia by its reflection in the nearby ocean, and the terminator region between night and day can be seen moving across the Indian Ocean. In the original images, the Earth's rotation is so dominant that cloud movement is hard to see, but these images have been mapped to the Earth is such a way that a viewer can watch just the clouds move in the ocean around Antarctica or across the Australian land mass. In this animation, New Zealand can ony be seen as a stationary disturbance under a moving cloud bank. The black area with the sharp boundary to the north and east of Australia is the side of the Earth that could not be seen from Galileo's position. || ", "hits": 100 }, { "id": 2948, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2948/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-05-17T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Simulated Aura/OMI Data Collection", "description": "On June 19, 2004, NASA launches Aura, a next generation Earth-observing satellite. One of several instruments on the Aura satellite is the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI). OMI is a contribution of the Netherland's Agency for Aerospace Programs (NIVR) along with the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI). OMI will continue the TOMS record for total ozone and other atmospheric parameters related to ozone chemistry and climate. (For more information on the Aura project, please visit http://aura.gsfc.nasa.gov/)Note: The size of the satellite model in the following animation and stills has been exaggerated for aesthetic purposes. || ", "hits": 58 }, { "id": 2877, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2877/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-04-22T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth-Mars Planet Comparisons (False Color with Axes and Orbit Plane)", "description": "This is a visualization showing the relative size of Mars compared to that of Earth. This version uses false color textures (there are corresponding true color versions as well). The colors correspond to the heights above/below 'sea level.' This version also includes pole axes and an orbit plane. || ", "hits": 76 }, { "id": 2878, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2878/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-04-22T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth-Mars Planet Comparisons (True Color)", "description": "This is a visualization showing the relative size of Mars compared to that of Earth. This version uses true color textures (there are corresponding false color versions as well). || ", "hits": 514 }, { "id": 2879, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2879/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-04-22T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth-Mars Planet Comparisons (True Color with Axes and Orbit Plane)", "description": "This is a visualization showing the relative size of Mars compared to that of Earth. 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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. || ", "hits": 31 }, { "id": 2886, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2886/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-01-31T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Great Zoom into Houston, Texas: Reliant Stadium (with spin)", "description": "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. || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 2887, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2887/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-01-31T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Great Zoom out of Houston, Texas: Reliant Stadium", "description": "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. || ", "hits": 19 }, { "id": 2888, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2888/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-01-31T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Great Zoom into Houston, Texas: Reliant Stadium", "description": "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. 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