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While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, some individual imagery provided by pond5.com, Artbeats, and Conservation International is obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on stock footage may be found here. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html.Complete transcript available.Music Credit: Universal Production Music: In Doubt (Instrumental) by Claire Leona Batchelor [PRS], Find the Truth (Instrumental) by Paul Russell [PRS]Notes on Footage:Provided by Conservation International: 00:00-00:45; 01:03-01:33; 01:53-02:10; 02:12-02:22; 02:57-03:13; 04:00-04:04Stock: 01:33–01:37 provided by ABSTRACTICA/Pond5; 02:10-02:12 provided by Artbeats; 02:22–02:25 provided by Longjourney/Pond5 || Still_Landcovermap.jpg (1920x1080) [580.0 KB] || Still_ConservationInternational.jpg (1920x1080) [925.5 KB] || Still_ConservationInternational_print.jpg (1024x576) [365.3 KB] || Still_ConservationInternational_searchweb.png (320x180) [113.6 KB] || Still_ConservationInternational_web.png (320x180) [113.6 KB] || Still_ConservationInternational_thm.png (80x40) [8.0 KB] || 13145_Quicktime_NASAConservationInternational_1080.mov (1920x1080) [6.3 GB] || 13145_NASAConservationInternational_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [447.5 MB] || 13145_NASACI_3921.webm (960x540) [109.4 MB] || 13145_Twitter_NASAConservationInternational_720.mp4 (1280x720) [51.3 MB] || 13145_NASAConservationInternational.en_US.srt [4.9 KB] || 13145_NASAConservationInternational.en_US.vtt [4.9 KB] || ", "hits": 17 }, { "id": 4836, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4836/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2021-03-11T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Liberia Land Use and Ecosystem Extent", "description": "Land Use, Libera || top.00660_print.jpg (1024x576) [220.1 KB] || top.00660_searchweb.png (320x180) [105.8 KB] || top.00660_thm.png (80x40) [7.2 KB] || top.mp4 (1920x1080) [42.8 MB] || top.webm (1920x1080) [2.3 MB] || top.mp4.hwshow [169 bytes] || ", "hits": 132 }, { "id": 13712, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13712/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-11-30T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Landsat 9: Continuing the Legacy series", "description": "Five decades ago, NASA and the US Geological Society launched a satellite to monitor Earth’s land from space. It was the beginning of a legacy. The Apollo era had given us our first looks at Earth from space and inspired the idea of regularly collecting images of our planet. The first Landsat — originally known as the Earth Resources Technology Satellite, or ERTS — rocketed into space in 1972. Since then, there have been eight Landsats and we’re preparing to launch number nine.The Landsat legacy stretches far and wide. Using visible and infrared light, Landsat helps track the health of crops, shows ocean pollution, and tracks coral reefs, icebergs and more. Thanks to sensor that can record wavelengths beyond what we can see with our eyes, Landsat can record vital information about Earth's surface.Narrated by the actor Marc Evan Jackson, who played a Landsat scientist in the movie Kong: Skull Island (2017), this series of videos tells the story of Landsat 9. From the birth of the Landsat program to the present preparations for launching Landsat 9 and even a look to the future with Landsat NeXt. || ", "hits": 68 }, { "id": 13735, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13735/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-10-16T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Photon Phriday: One Phull Orbit", "description": "Follow an entire orbit of the ICESat-2 mission as it measures the elevation of oceans, sea ice, mountains and islands around the Earth. This video shows the same orbit (ground reference track 1352) on two different dates (December 26, 2018, and September 24, 2019) to capture the clearest, least cloudy data examples. Each frame shows a different aspect of the orbit. The upper left frame is the entire photon cloud standardized on a global scale. The upper right frame shows selected photon cloud granules that sync with the global scale within a degree in order to show more spatial detail. In many cases, the zoomed-in photon clouds in this frame have been slowed down in order to show details clearly. The bottom right frame shows video examples of the terrain that correspond with where the orbit is. The bottom left terrain is the continuous orbit on a blue marble with labels for countries and other geographic features that represent where the orbit went over or very nearby. || ", "hits": 31 }, { "id": 4823, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4823/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2020-09-11T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Draining the Oceans", "description": "Data visualization of the draining of the Earth's oceans. The visualization simulates an incremental drop of 10 meters of the water’s level on Earth’s surface. As time progresses and the oceans drain, it becomes evident that underwater mountain ranges are bigger in size and trenches are deeper in comparison to those on dry land. 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BedMachine relies on the fundamental physics-based method of mass conservation to estimate what lies between the radar sounding lines, utilizing highly detailed information on ice flow motion from satellite data that dictates how ice moves. The dataset is available from the National Snow & Ice Data Center here. || ", "hits": 347 }, { "id": 13286, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13286/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-12-02T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Why Observe?: Land Cover", "description": "\"Life Choices\" - Instrumental (Full Length) Eric Chevalier [SACEM]; Koka Media/Universal Publishing Production Music; Universal Production Music\"Evolution of Life\" - Instrumental (Full Length) David Stephen Goldsmith [PRS]; Atmosphere; Universal Production Music\"Time Ticking Away\" - Instrumental (Full Length) Adam Paul Courtenay Burns [PRS] and Jez Burns [PRS]; Atmosphere; Universal Production Music\"Shadow Lands\" - Instrumental (Full Length) Anthoney Edwin Philips [PRS] and Samuel Karl Bohn [PRS]; Atmosphere; Universal Production Music\"The Remaining Shadows\" Mark Russell [PRS]; Atmosphere Ltd.; Universal Production Music\"8bit Ninja\" - 15 Sec. Alex Komlew [GEMA] and Florian Jahrstorfer [GEMA]; Ed. 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OLI-2 was built and tested at Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado. Landsat 9, a partnership between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, is a series of satellites that began with Landsat 1 in 1972.Music: Bit Streaming, composed by David Edwards [ASCAP], published by Soundcast Music [SESAC] Complete transcript available. || 13329_OLI-2_Ships_still.jpg (1920x1080) [555.8 KB] || 13329_OLI-2_Ships_still_searchweb.png (320x180) [110.3 KB] || 13329_OLI-2_Ships_still_thm.png (80x40) [8.5 KB] || 13329_OLI-2_Ships_large.webm (1920x1080) [19.2 MB] || 13329_OLI-2_Ships_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [217.5 MB] || 13329_OLI-2_ships-captions.en_US.srt [1.4 KB] || 13329_OLI-2_ships-captions.en_US.vtt [1.4 KB] || 13329_OLI-2_Ships_MASTER.mov (1920x1080) [3.5 GB] || ", "hits": 34 }, { "id": 4710, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4710/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2019-03-13T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Global Landslide Catalog (update 2019)", "description": "Using the Global Landslide Catalog (GLC), a world map has been produced to show the location of 11,033 reported landslides triggered by rainfall for the period 2007-2019 (last update 02.29.19). In this version, all landslide locations have the same visual treatment without pointing out which ones had fatalities. This version has been created for kids and educational purposes. || TotalLandslides_Catalog2019_print.jpg (1024x576) [86.8 KB] || TotalLandslides_Catalog2019_searchweb.png (320x180) [38.3 KB] || TotalLandslides_Catalog2019_thm.png (80x40) [5.7 KB] || TotalLandslides_Catalog2019.tif (3840x2160) [1.8 MB] || ", "hits": 401 }, { "id": 30988, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30988/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2018-08-29T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth System Diagram", "description": "Diagram showing parts of the Earth system. || earth_system_diagram_print.jpg (1024x574) [115.6 KB] || earth_system_diagram.png (4104x2304) [1.2 MB] || earth_system_diagram_searchweb.png (320x180) [63.5 KB] || earth_system_diagram_thm.png (80x40) [6.6 KB] || earth_system_diagram.hwshow [208 bytes] || ", "hits": 443 }, { "id": 4631, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4631/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2018-04-26T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Global Landslide Hazard Assessment Model (LHASA) with Global Landslide Catalog (GLC) data", "description": "Landslides occur when an environmental trigger like an extreme rain event, often a severe storm or hurricane, and gravity's downward pull sets soil and rock in motion. Conditions beneath the surface are often unstable already, so the heavy rains act as the last straw that causes mud, rocks, or debris- or all combined- to move rapidly down mountains and hillsides. Unfortunately, people and property are often swept up in these unexpected mass movements. Landslides can also be caused by earthquakes, surface freezing and thawing, ice melt, the collapse of groundwater reservoirs, volcanic eruptions, and erosion at the base of a slope from the flow of river or ocean water. But torrential rains most commonly activate landslides. A new model has been developed to look at how potential landslide activity is changing around the world. A global Landslide Hazard Assessment model for Situational Awareness (LHASA) has been developed to provide an indication of where and when landslides may be likely around the world every 30min. This model uses surface susceptibility (including slope, vegetation, road networks, geology, and forest cover loss) and satellite rainfall data from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission to provide moderate to high “nowcasts.” This visualization shows the landslide nowcast results leveraging nearly two decades of Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) rainfall over 2001-2016 to identify a landslide climatology by month at a 1 km grid cell. The average nowcast values by month highlight the key landslide hotspots, such as the Southeast Asia during the monsoon season in June through August and the U.S. Pacific Northwest in December and January. Overlaid with these nowcasts values are a Global Landslide Catalog (GLC) was developed with the goal of identifying rainfall-triggered landslide events around the world, regardless of size, impact, or location. The GLC considers all types of mass movements triggered by rainfall, which have been reported in the media, disaster databases, scientific reports, or other sources. The visualization shows the distribution of landslides each month based on the estimated number of fatalities the event caused. The GLC has been compiled since 2007 at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and contains over 11,000 reports and growing. A new project called the Community the Cooperative Open Online Landslide Repository, or COOLR, provides the opportunity for the community to view landslide reports and contribute their own. The goal of the COOLR project is to create the largest global public online landslide catalog available and open to for anyone everyone to share, download, and analyze landslide information. More information on this system is available at: https://landslides.nasa.govThe Global Landslide Catalog is currently available here: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/global-landslide-catalog-export || ", "hits": 260 }, { "id": 4640, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4640/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2018-04-25T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Close-up Views of the Global Landslide Hazard Assessment Model (LHASA) overlaid with Global Landslide Catalog (GLC) data", "description": "A close-up view of the potential landslide activity during July in Southeast Asia as evaluated by NASA's Landslide Hazard Assessment model for Situational Awareness. In the Download tab to the right, a set of 12 still images provides high-resolution (9,600x5,400) global maps to allow for close-up views in any location around the world. 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Tracking when and where landslides occur worldwide has historically been difficult, because of the lack of a centralized database across all nations. But NASA researchers have updated the first publicly available Global Landslide Catalog (GLC), based on media reports and online databases that bring together many sources of information on landslides that have occurred. The GLC has been compiled since 2007 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and was originally released in 2010. Around 10,804 landslides are noted in the catalog for the period 2007-2017. This wealth of data gives scientists a starting point to analyze where, how and why landslides are likely to occur. The catalog is currently available here: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/global-landslide-catalog-exportRecently, a new model was developed to look at how potential landslide activity is changing around the world. A global Landslide Hazard Assessment model for Situational Awareness (LHASA) has been developed to provide an indication of where and when landslides may be likely around the world every 30 minutes. This model uses surface susceptibility (including slope, vegetation, road networks, geology, and forest cover loss) and satellite rainfall data from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission to provide moderate to high “nowcasts.” For more information about this new model, please visit: New NASA Model Finds Landslide Threats in Near Real-Time During Heavy Rains\" || ", "hits": 103 }, { "id": 12897, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12897/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-03-22T10:30:00-04:00", "title": "New NASA Model Finds Landslide Threats in Near Real-Time During Heavy Rains", "description": "A new model has been developed to look at how potential landslide activity is changing around the world. A global Landslide Hazard Assessment model for Situational Awareness (LHASA) has been developed to provide an indication of where and when landslides may be likely around the world every 30 minutes. This model uses surface susceptibility (including slope, vegetation, road networks, geology, and forest cover loss) and satellite rainfall data from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission to provide moderate to high “nowcasts.” This visualization shows the landslide nowcast results leveraging nearly two decades of Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) rainfall over 2001-2016 to identify a landslide climatology by month at a 1 km grid cell. The average nowcast values by month highlight the key landslide hotspots, such as the Southeast Asia during the monsoon season in June through August and the U.S. Pacific Northwest in December and January. Overlaid with these nowcasts values are a Global Landslide Catalog(GLC) that was developed with the goal of identifying rainfall-triggered landslide events around the world, regardless of size, impact, or location. The GLC considers all types of mass movements triggered by rainfall, which have been reported in the media, disaster databases, scientific reports, or other sources. The visualization shows the distribution of landslides each month based on the estimated number of fatalities the event caused. The GLC has been compiled since 2007 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and contains over 11,000 reports and growing. A new project called the Community the Cooperative Open Online Landslide Repository, or COOLR, provides the opportunity for the community to view landslide reports and contribute their own. The goal of the COOLR project is to create the largest global public online landslide catalog available and open to for anyone everyone to share, download, and analyze landslide information. More information on this system is available at: https://landslides.nasa.gov. Landslides occur when an environmental trigger like an extreme rain event, often a severe storm or hurricane, and gravity's downward pull sets soil and rock in motion. Conditions beneath the surface are often unstable already, so the heavy rains act as the last straw that causes mud, rocks, or debris- or all combined- to move rapidly down mountains and hillsides. Unfortunately, people and property are often swept up in these unexpected mass movements. Landslides can also be caused by earthquakes, surface freezing and thawing, ice melt, the collapse of groundwater reservoirs, volcanic eruptions, and erosion at the base of a slope from the flow of river or ocean water. But torrential rains most commonly activate landslides.For more information: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/new-from-nasa-tracking-landslide-hazards-new-nasa-model-finds-landslide-threats-in-near-real || ", "hits": 118 }, { "id": 4633, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4633/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2018-03-22T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landslide Activity in the Americas for the Cover of Earth's Future", "description": "A view of the potential landslide activity during January in the Americas, as evaluated by NASA's Landslide Hazard Assessment model for Situational Awareness (LHASA). This still image is provided in 300dpi (print resolution) and in separate layers (water, data, land, outlines). || ClimatologyJanuary_Cover_Light_Layers_Preview_print.jpg (1024x1024) [125.1 KB] || ClimatologyJanuary_Cover_Light_Layers_Preview.png (2550x2550) [2.5 MB] || ClimatologyJanuary_Cover_Light_Layers_Preview_searchweb.png (320x180) [34.2 KB] || ClimatologyJanuary_Cover_Light_Layers_Preview_thm.png (80x40) [3.4 KB] || ClimatologyJanuary_Cover_Light_Layers_300dpi.tif (2550x2550) [16.4 MB] || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 12851, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12851/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-02-09T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "5th Anniversary of Landsat 8's Launch", "description": "In its five years in space, Landsat 8 made 26,500 orbits around Earth and captured 1.1 million \"scenes\" of our home planet, representing 16 percent of all the observations kept in the 45-year Landsat archive.Music: Divine Punishment by Christopher Franke [BMI]Complete transcript available. || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_large.01975_print.jpg (1024x576) [50.2 KB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_large.01975_searchweb.png (320x180) [7.1 KB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_large.01975_thm.png (80x40) [1.4 KB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_prores_1920.mov (1920x1080) [4.7 GB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_prores_1280.mov (1280x720) [2.5 GB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [191.3 MB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [327.2 MB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_youtube_720.mp4 (1280x720) [315.6 MB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_twitter_720.mp4 (1280x720) [53.5 MB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year.webm (960x540) [76.4 MB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year-captions.en_US.srt [3.8 KB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year-captions.en_US.vtt [3.8 KB] || ", "hits": 99 }, { "id": 30162, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30162/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2017-09-01T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Devastation and Recovery of Mt. St. Helens", "description": "In the nearly four decades since the eruption (1980), Mt. St. Helens has given scientists an unprecedented opportunity to witness the steps through which life reclaims a devastated landscape. The scale of the eruption and the beginning of reclamation in the Mt. St. Helens blast zone are documented in this series of images between 1979 and 2017. The older images are false-color (vegetation is red). Not surprisingly, the first noticeable recovery (late 1980s) takes place in the northwestern quadrant of the blast zone, farthest from the volcano. It is another decade (late 1990s) before the terrain east of Spirit Lake is considerably greener. By the end of the series, the only area (beyond the slopes of the mountain itself) that remains conspicuously bare at the scale of these images is the Pumice Plain. || ", "hits": 125 }, { "id": 11761, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11761/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-07-21T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Land Changes in Atchafalaya Bay", "description": "Since 1972, Landsat satellites have orbited our home planet, collecting data about the land surface we rely on. This video shows footage of the launch of the first Landsat satellite, on July 23, 1972, and a timelapse of the changing coastal wetlands in Atchafalaya Bay, Louisiana.Music credit: Step By Step, by Gresby Race Nash [PRS] || 11761_Atchafalaya_Delta_Landsat45th_large.00385_print.jpg (1024x576) [74.5 KB] || 11761_Atchafalaya_Delta_Landsat45th_large.00385_searchweb.png (320x180) [63.5 KB] || 11761_Atchafalaya_Delta_Landsat45th_large.00385_thm.png (80x40) [5.0 KB] || 11761_Atchafalaya_Delta_Landsat45th_prores.mov (1280x720) [1.5 GB] || 11761_Atchafalaya_Delta_Landsat45th_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [111.8 MB] || 11761_Atchafalaya_Delta_Landsat45th_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [162.4 MB] || 11761_Atchafalaya_Delta_Landsat45th_facebook_720.mp4 (1280x720) [118.5 MB] || 11761_Atchafalaya_Delta_Landsat45th.webm (960x540) [45.1 MB] || GSFC_20170721_Landsat_m11761_Atchafalaya.en_US.vtt [42 bytes] || ", "hits": 71 }, { "id": 4337, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4337/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-07-30T17:01:00-04:00", "title": "Rainfall Accumulation Across the United States (1/1/2015 - 7/16/2015)", "description": "The accumulated precipitation product visualized here begins on January 1, 2015 and runs through July 16, 2015. This visualization shows the heavy rainfall throughout Northern Texas and across Oklahoma as well as the drought in Southern California.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || usa_drought_accum.6400_print.jpg (1024x576) [143.8 KB] || usa_drought_accum.6400_searchweb.png (320x180) [91.0 KB] || usa_drought_accum.6400_thm.png (80x40) [7.0 KB] || usa_drought_accum.6.mp4 (1920x1080) [6.5 MB] || rainfall_only_on_land (1920x1080) [32.0 KB] || usa_drought_accum_w_cbar_comp_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [7.0 MB] || rainfall_only_on_land_with_colorbar (1920x1080) [32.0 KB] || usa_drought_accum.6.webm (1920x1080) [1.5 MB] || ", "hits": 219 }, { "id": 20226, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20226/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2015-07-27T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landslide Animation", "description": "Landslide animation - rotational landslide. || landslide_seq_00660_print.jpg (1024x576) [113.4 KB] || landslide_seq_00660_searchweb.png (320x180) [59.1 KB] || landslide_seq_00660_thm.png (80x40) [5.0 KB] || Landslide_final_59fps_prores.webm (1920x1080) [1.8 MB] || 1920x1080_16x9_60p (1920x1080) [128.0 KB] || Landslide_final_59fps_h264.mov (1920x1080) [605.4 MB] || Landslide_final_59fps_prores.mov (1920x1080) [907.5 MB] || landslide.mp4 (1920x1080) [14.9 MB] || ", "hits": 145 }, { "id": 11860, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11860/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-04-21T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA On Air: NASA Landslide Catalog Now Available (4/21/2015)", "description": "LEAD: A new website now totals up landslide occurrences and resulting deaths across the U.S. and the world.1. NASA and other researchers have tracked global news and web reports of rain-caused landslides since 2007.2. Between 2007 and 2013, more than 20,000 people have died in 6,000 landslides - an average of 2,500 per year.3. An interactive website will help researchers match future news reports of landslides with the data of heavy rain from a new satellite-based network covering Earth.TAG: Early warning for potential landslides is the long-term goal. || WC_Landslides-1920-MASTER_iPad_1920x0180_print.jpg (1024x576) [110.9 KB] || WC_Landslides-1920-MASTER_iPad_1920x0180_searchweb.png (320x180) [73.9 KB] || WC_Landslides-1920-MASTER_iPad_1920x0180_web.png (320x180) [73.9 KB] || WC_Landslides-1920-MASTER_iPad_1920x0180_thm.png (80x40) [6.1 KB] || WC_Landslides-1920-MASTER_WEA_CEN.wmv (1280x720) [14.6 MB] || WC_Landslides_converted.avi (1280x720) [16.2 MB] || WC_Landslides-1920-MASTER_baron.mp4 (1920x1080) [15.4 MB] || WC_Landslides-1920-MASTER_iPad_960x540.m4v (960x540) [46.4 MB] || WC_Landslides-1920-MASTER_iPad_1280x720.m4v (1280x720) [84.5 MB] || WC_Landslides-1920-MASTER_iPad_1920x0180.webm (1920x1080) [2.8 MB] || WC_Landslides-1920-MASTER_iPad_1920x0180.m4v (1920x1080) [182.7 MB] || WC_Landslides-1920-MASTER_NBC_Today.mov (1920x1080) [198.6 MB] || WC_Landslides-1920-MASTER_prores.mov (1920x1080) [421.7 MB] || WC_Landslides-1920-MASTER_1920x1080.mov (1920x1080) [742.6 MB] || WC_Landslides-1920-MASTER_1280x720.mov (1280x720) [915.8 MB] || ", "hits": 182 }, { "id": 11854, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11854/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-04-16T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Global Landslide Catalog Aids View From Space", "description": "Landslides are among the most common and dramatic natural hazards, reshaping landscapes -- and anything in their path. Tracking when and where landslides occur worldwide has historically been difficult, because of the lack of a centralized database across all nations. But NASA researchers have updated the first publicly available Global Landslide Catalog, based on media reports and online databases that bring together many sources of information on landslides that have occurred since 2007. The catalog, originally released in 2010, is still the only one of its kind.Around 6000 landslides are noted in the catalog. This wealth of data gives scientists a starting point to analyze where, how and why landslides are likely to occur. In particular, NASA researchers have begun to compare landslide occurrence with global rainfall data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission.The catalog is currently available at: http://ojo-streamer.herokuapp.com/.Research: Spatial and temporal analysis of a global landslide catalog.Journal: Geomorphology, March 21, 2015.Link to paper: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X15001579.Here is the YouTube video. || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 11855, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11855/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-04-16T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Instagram: Global Landslide Catalog Aids View From Space", "description": "Landslides are among the most common and dramatic natural hazards, reshaping landscapes -- and anything in their path. Tracking when and where landslides occur worldwide has historically been difficult, because of the lack of a centralized database across all nations. But NASA researchers have updated the first publicly available Global Landslide Catalog, based on media reports and online databases that bring together many sources of information on landslides that have occurred since 2007. The catalog, originally released in 2010, is still the only one of its kind.Around 6000 landslides are noted in the catalog. This wealth of data gives scientists a starting point to analyze where, how and why landslides are likely to occur. In particular, NASA researchers have begun to compare landslide occurrence with global rainfall data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission.The catalog is currently available at: https://landslides.nasa.gov/Research: Spatial and temporal analysis of a global landslide catalog.Journal: Geomorphology, March 21, 2015.Link to paper: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X15001579. || ", "hits": 34 }, { "id": 4294, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4294/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-03-31T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "IMERG Precipitation Rates Across India's Ghats Mountains", "description": "Animation of precipitation rates across India and surrounding countries. Notice the heavy rains throughout the Ghats Mountain range which resulted in devastating landslides along India's west coast. || ghats_w_dates.0140_print.jpg (1024x576) [169.8 KB] || ghats_w_dates.0140_print_thm.png (80x40) [7.5 KB] || ghats_w_dates.0140_searchweb.png (320x180) [99.4 KB] || ghats_dated_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [20.9 MB] || Ghats_with_dates (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || ghats2.mp4 (1920x1080) [21.0 MB] || Ghats_without_dates (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || ghats_dated_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [2.8 MB] || date_overlay (350x80) [0 Item(s)] || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 4299, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4299/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-03-31T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "IMERG Accumulated Precipitation Across India's Ghats Mountains", "description": "Animation showing accumulated precipitation over India. Notice the extremely high amounts of accumulated rain over the Ghats Mountains. These heavy rains led to major landslides along this mountain range. || ghats_accum_dated.0383_print.jpg (1024x576) [225.3 KB] || ghats_accum_dated.0383_print_thm.png (80x40) [8.5 KB] || ghats_accum_dated.0383_searchweb.png (320x180) [123.3 KB] || ghats_accum_dated_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [11.8 MB] || Ghats_Accum_with_dates (1920x1080) [32.0 KB] || ghats_accum.mp4 (1920x1080) [11.7 MB] || Ghats_Accum_without_dates (1920x1080) [32.0 KB] || ghats_accum_dated_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [1.5 MB] || date_overlay (350x80) [32.0 KB] || ", "hits": 20 }, { "id": 30516, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30516/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2014-07-28T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Exploring Sapporo, Japan", "description": "Located on the northern island of Hokkaido, Sapporo is Japan’s fourth-largest city by population. These two images taken by Landsat 8 show Sapporo and its surrounding area on October 10, 2013 and April 20, 2014. In both images the urban city appears gray. Close by, several rectangular agricultural fields (tan and brown) can be seen sprawling eastward. West of the city center, mountains fill the scene. Mount Yōtei, an active stratovolcano located in Shikotsu-Toya National Park, can be seen near the bottom center of the images.Sapporo has a continental climate that offers the full gamut of seasons and a wide variety of temperatures throughout the year. In the October image, the fall leaves in the highest elevations have already begun transitioning into shades of orange and brown. Sapporo receives an average of approximately 360 centimeters (250 inches) of snowfall each year, making it one of the snowiest cities in the world and an ideal site for winter activities. The city hosts its annual Sapporo Snow Festival in February each year, and hosted the Winter Olympics in 1972. The April image shows that even in early spring, there is still plenty of snow covering the nearby mountains. || ", "hits": 56 }, { "id": 30166, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30166/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-10-17T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Amazon Deforestation", "description": "The state of Rondônia in western Brazil has become one of the most deforested parts of the Amazon. This image series, created with data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) onboard NASA’s Terra satellite, shows the region from 2000 to 2010. By the year 2000, the frontier had reached the remote northwest corner of Rondônia. Intact forest is deep green, while cleared areas are tan (bare ground) or light green (crops, pastures). Deforestation follows a predictable pattern in these images. The first clearings appear in a fishbone pattern, arrayed along the edges of roads. Over time, the fishbones collapse into a mixture of forest remnants, cleared areas, and settlements. This pattern is common in the Amazon. Legal and illegal roads penetrate a remote part of the forest, and small farmers migrate to the area. They claim land along the road and clear some of it for crops. Within a few years, heavy rains and erosion deplete the soil, and crop yields fall. Farmers then convert the degraded land to cattle pasture, and clear more forest for crops. || ", "hits": 162 }, { "id": 4097, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4097/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-08-29T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Greenland's Mega-Canyon beneath the Ice Sheet", "description": "Subglacial topography plays an important role in modulating the distribution and flow of meltwater beneath the ice known as basal water flow. This animation portrays topographic data of the bedrock under the Greenland ice sheet derived from ice-penetrating radar data. Clearly evident in the topography is a 750-km-long subglacial canyon in northern Greenland that is likely to have influenced basal water flow from the ice sheet interior to the margin. The authors suggest that the mega-canyon predates ice sheet inception and has influenced basal hydrology in Greenland over past glacial cycles. (See reference under \"Science Paper\" below)Starting with a view of the surface of Greenland, the animation zooms closer to the surface as the ice sheet is stripped away to reveal the false-color topography of the bedrock that lies beneath. Regions above sea level are shown in shades of green while areas below zero are colored by shades of brown. Yellow indicates the area near sea level. The topography is exaggerated from 12 to 40 times in order to accentuate the topographic relief. Visible in the topography from about the midpoint of Greenland to its Northwest coast is the 750-km-long subglacial canyon described by the authors. || ", "hits": 204 }, { "id": 30059, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30059/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-07-10T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Mountaintop Mining, West Virginia", "description": "These images illustrate the growth of the Hobet mine in Boone County, WV as it moves from ridge to ridge between 1984 and 2015. The natural forested landscape appears dark green, creased by steams and indented by hollows. Active mining areas, however, appear off-white and areas being reclaimed with vegetation appear light green. The law requires coal operators to restore the land to its approximate original shape, but the rock debris generally can’t be securely piled as high or graded as steeply as the original mountaintop. There is always too much rock left over, and coal companies dispose of it by building valley fills in hollows, gullies, and streams. While the image from 2015 shows apparent green-up of restored lands, it also shows expanded operations in the west. The resulting impacts to stream biodiversity, forest health, and ground-water quality are high, and may be irreversible. || ", "hits": 88 }, { "id": 30056, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30056/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-07-01T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Athabasca Oil Sands", "description": "Buried under Canada’s boreal forest is one of the world’s largest reserves of oil. Bitumen—a very thick and heavy form of oil (also called asphalt)—coats grains of sand and other minerals in a deposit that covers about 142,200 square kilometers of northwest Alberta.Only 20 percent of the oil sands lie near the surface where they can easily be mined. The rest of the oil sands are buried more than 75 meters below ground and are extracted by injecting hot water into a well that liquefies the oil for pumping. This series of images from the Landsat satellite shows the growth of surface mines over the Athabasca oil sands between 1984 and 2015.These images show slow growth between 1984 and 2000, followed by a decade of more rapid development. The first mine (from 1967, now part of the Millennium Mine) is visible near the Athabasca River in the 1984 image. The only new development visible between 1984 and 2000 is the Mildred Lake Mine (west of the river), which began production in 1996. By 2015 operations have expanded to the north and east. || ", "hits": 34 }, { "id": 30053, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30053/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-06-25T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Dead Sea Salt Farming", "description": "The Dead Sea is so named because its high salinity discourages the growth of fish, plants, and other wildlife. It is the lowest surface feature on Earth, sitting roughly 1,300 feet below sea level. On a hot, dry summer day, the water level can drop as much as one inch because of evaporation. These three false-color images were captured in 1972, 1989, and 2011 by Landsat satellites. Deep waters are blue or dark blue, while brighter blues indicate shallow waters or salt ponds. Green indicates sparsely vegetated lands. Denser vegetation appears bright red. The ancient Egyptians used salts from the Dead Sea for mummification, fertilizers, and potash (a potassium-based salt). In the modern age, sodium chloride and potassium salts culled from the sea are used for water conditioning, road de-icing, and the manufacturing of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics. The expansions of massive salt evaporation projects are clearly visible over the span of 39 years. || ", "hits": 114 }, { "id": 11290, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11290/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-05-23T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Pivot Irrigation in Saudi Arabia", "description": "Saudi Arabia is drilling for a resource possibly more precious than oil.Over the last 24 years, it has tapped hidden reserves of water to grow wheat and other crops in the Syrian Desert. This time series of data shows images acquired by three different Landsat satellites operated by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey.The green fields that dot the desert draw on water that in part was trapped during the last Ice Age. In addition to rainwater that fell over several hundred thousand years, this fossil water filled aquifers that are now buried deep under the desert's shifting sands.Saudi Arabia reaches these underground rivers and lakes by drilling through the desert floor, directly irrigating the fields with a circular sprinkler system. This technique is called center-pivot irrigation.Because rainfall in this area is now only a few centimeters (about one inch) each year, water here is a non-renewable resource. Although no one knows how much water is beneath the desert, hydrologists estimate it will only be economical to pump water for about 50 years.In this series of four Landsat images, the agricultural fields are about one kilometer (.62 miles) across. The images were created using reflected light from the short wave-infrared, near-infrared, and green portions of the electromagnetic spectrum (bands 7, 4, and 2 from Landsat 4 and 5 TM and Landsat 7 ETM+ sensors). Using this combination of wavelengths, healthy vegetation appears bright green while dry vegetation appears orange. Barren soil is a dark pink, and urban areas, like the town of Tubarjal at the top of each image, have a purple hue.Landsat 4 launched in 1982 and provided scientific data for 11 years until 1993. NASA launched Landsat 5 in 1984 and it ran a record-breaking 28 years, sending back what was likely its last data in 2011. Landsat 7 is still up and running; it was launched in 1999. The data from these and other Landsat satellites has been instrumental in increasing our understanding of forest health, storm damage, agricultural trends, urban growth, and many other ongoing changes to our land.NASA and the U.S. Department of the Interior through the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) jointly manage Landsat, and the USGS preserves a 40-year archive of Landsat images that is freely available data over the Internet. Download a still image showing four of the years: 1987, 1991, 2000, and 2012. || ", "hits": 274 }, { "id": 11249, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11249/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-05-15T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat 8 Long Swath", "description": "After two months of on-orbit testing and calibration, Landsat 8 (previously called LDCM) fired its propulsion system on April 12, 2013, and ascended to its final orbit 438 miles (705 km) above Earth. The animation, made from scenes taken a week later on April 19, allows viewers to fly with the satellite from its final operating orbit. 56 continuous Landsat scenes from that orbit have been stitched together into a seamless view from Russia to South Africa. Orbiting at 16,800 mph (27,000 kph), Landsat 8 made this flight in just more than 20 minutes. The animation moves faster, covering 5,665 miles (9,117 kilometers) in nearly 16 minutes. You would have to be moving about 21,930 mph (35,290 kph) to get a similar view — only slightly slower than the Apollo astronauts who entered Earth's orbit from the moon at 25,000 mph (40,200 kph). We pan down the long swath of data from Landsat 8, starting in northern Russia, passing over the Caucasus Mountains, the Republic of Georgia, Armenia, Turkey (passing Lake Van), Iraq, and Saudi Arabia (the cities of Medina and Jeddah), crossing the Red Sea into Eritrea, Ethiopia, the Kenya-Uganda border and catching the eastern edge of Lake Victoria, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, a little bit of Mozambique, and ending in northern South Africa. || ", "hits": 55 }, { "id": 4012, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4012/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-12-07T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Life Histories from Landsat: 25 Years in the Pacific Northwest Forest — North/South Tour", "description": "This visualization shows a sequence of Landsat-based data in the Pacific Northwest. There is one data set for each year representing an aggregate of the approximate peak of the growing season (around August). The data was created using a sophisticated algorithm called LandTrendr. LandTrendr analyzes 'stacks' of Landsat scenes, looking for statistical trends in the data and filtering out noise. The algorithm evaluated data from more than 1,800 Landsat Thematic Mapper images, nearly 1 Terabyte of raw imagery, to define the life histories of each of more than 336 million pixels on the landscape. The resulting trends identify periods of stability and change that are displayed as colors.In these false color images, the colors represent types of land; for example, blue areas are forests; orange/yellow areas are agriculture; and, purple areas are urban. Each 'stack' is representative of a Landsat scene. There are 22 stacks stitched together to cover most of the U.S. Pacific Northwest. This processed data is used for science, natural resource management, and education.We move in to the southwest corner of the data set near Redwood National Park and proceed on a slow tour through a portion of the data set. Time loops from 1984 through 2011 as we move. We move over to Mount Shasta, then up the Cascade Range, passing Crater Lake National Park, the Three Sisters, Mount Jefferson, Mount Hood, Mount Saint Helens, Mount Adams, Mount Rainier, Mount Baker, and the North Cascades National Park. Next we move west over Seattle and pass over Olympic National Park, then we head back south down the Willamette Valley back to Redwood National Park.Don't miss this related narrated visualization || ", "hits": 133 }, { "id": 4013, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4013/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-12-07T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Life Histories from Landsat: 25 Years in the Pacific Northwest Forest", "description": "This visualization shows a sequence of Landsat-based data in the Pacific Northwest. There is one data set for each year representing an aggregate of the approximate peak of the growing season (around August). The data was created using a sophisticated algorithm called LandTrendr. LandTrendr analyzes 'stacks' of Landsat scenes, looking for statistical trends in the data and filtering out noise. The algorithm evaluated data from more than 1,800 Landsat Thematic Mapper images, nearly 1 Terabyte of raw imagery, to define the life histories of each of more than 336 million pixels on the landscape. The resulting trends identify periods of stability and change that are displayed as colors.In these false color images, the colors represent types of land; for example, blue areas are forests; orange/yellow areas are agriculture; and, purple areas are urban. Each 'stack' is representative of a Landsat scene. There are 22 stacks stitched together to cover most of the U.S. Pacific Northwest. This processed data is used for science, natural resource management, and education.The visualization zooms into the Portland area showing different types of land such as agricultural, urban, and forests. We move south to a region that was evergreen forest for a number of years (blue), then was clear cut in 1999 (orange), then began to regrow (yellow). A graph shows the trajectories for a particular location in the clearcut as the years repeat. The dots represent the original data from Landsat; and, the line represents LandTrendr analysis. We move over to the Three Sisters region to show an area of pine forest that becomes infested with bark beetles in 2004. Next, we move to the southern foothills of Mount Hood where a budworm infestation is in progress; around 1991, the worms move on to another area and shrubs start to regrow. Next wemove to the east side of Mount Rainier National Park to see another budworm outbreak followed by shrub regrowth. Finally, we move to the west of Mount Rainier where we can see widespread clear cutting outside of the park, but no clear cutting inside the protected park land.Don't miss this related tour of the region. || ", "hits": 37 }, { "id": 11102, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11102/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-10-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Faces of GPM", "description": "Learn about the exciting and diverse team that studies precipitation at NASA. Watch interviews with scientists and engineers to get a face-to-face perspective on careers in science and technology. || ", "hits": 25 }, { "id": 11099, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11099/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-09-26T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth Science Week: Career Spotlights", "description": "Join us during Earth Science Week 2012 to meet an incredible group of NASA Earth Explorers — from scientists and engineers, to multimedia producers, educators and writers.Find out about their careers, why and how they study the planet, and what their typical days are like. From video interviews to blog posts and more, there will be a variety of multimedia activities that will allow Explorers to tell their stories. Have questions of your own? Participate in live Twitter interviews and Google+ Hangouts held throughout the week, as well as during a radio interview and webinar in Spanish.On October 18, learn about the many contributions of women at NASA to Earth science as part of Female Geoscientists Day.The 2012 NASA ESW website will be your one-stop-source for Earth science careers and resources during ESW and beyond. There you will find a collection of articles, information about events, links to blog posts, transcripts of Twitter interviews, and educational products in English and Spanish. || ", "hits": 19 }, { "id": 11091, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11091/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-08-27T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "GPM Applications", "description": "Water is fundamental to life on Earth. Knowing where and how much rain and snow falls globally is vital to understanding how weather and climate impact both our environment and Earth's water and energy cycles, including effects on agriculture, fresh water availability, and responses to natural disasters. Since rainfall and snowfall vary greatly from place to place and over time, satellites can provide more uniform observations of rain and snow around the globe than ground instruments, especially in areas where surface measurements are difficult. GPM's next-generation global precipitation data will lead to scientific advances and societal benefits in the following areas: Improved knowledge of the Earth's water cycle and its link to climate change New insights into precipitation microphysics, storm structures and large-scale atmospheric processes Better understanding of climate sensitivity and feedback processes Extended capabilities in monitoring and predicting hurricanes and other extreme weather events Improved forecasting capabilities for natural hazards, including floods, droughts and landslides. Enhanced numerical prediction skills for weather and climate Better agricultural crop forecasting and monitoring of freshwater resources.For more information and resources please visit the Precipitation Measurement Missions web site. || ", "hits": 25 }, { "id": 11003, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11003/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-06-19T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Excerpt from \"Dynamic Earth\"", "description": "A giant explosion of magnetic energy from the sun, called a coronal mass ejection, slams into and is deflected completely by the Earth's powerful magnetic field. The sun also continually sends out streams of light and radiation energy. Earth's atmosphere acts like a radiation shield, blocking quite a bit of this energy.Much of the radiation energy that makes it through is reflected back into space by clouds, ice and snow and the energy that remains helps to drive the Earth system, powering a remarkable planetary engine — the climate. It becomes the energy that feeds swirling wind and ocean currents as cold air and surface waters move toward the equator and warm air and water moves toward the poles — all in an attempt to equalize temperatures around the world.A jury appointed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Science magazine has selected \"Excerpt from Dynamic Earth\" as the winner of the 2013 NSF International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge for the Video category. This animation will be highlighted in the February 2014 special section of Science and will be hosted on ScienceMag.org and NSF.govThis animation was selected for the Computer Animation Festival's Electronic Theater at the Association for Computer Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH), a prestigious computer graphics and technical research forum. This is an excerpt from the fulldome, high-resolution show 'Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine.' The Dynamic Earth dome show was selected as a finalist in the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival Science Media Awards under the category \"Best Immersive Cinema - Fulldome\". || ", "hits": 115 }, { "id": 10967, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10967/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-04-30T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Dalhart, Texas 1972-2011", "description": "A water-rich polka dot pattern takes over the traditional rectangular patchwork of fields in this 40 year sequence of Landsat images showing the dry Texas panhandle near the town of Dalhart. In this series, vegetation appears red and the bare soil of fallow fields or sparsely vegetated grasslands appear white to green. The blue-gray X near the center of the images marks the town of Dalhart. || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 3896, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3896/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-12-28T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Mars Roll", "description": "A redux of entry #2455 using MGS/MOLA data for the Martian topography and MGS/MOC for the Martian surface color. The animation rolls Mars to show major features of the Martian topography. Major features depicted include: Olympus Mons, Valles Marineris, Hellas Basin, and the Martian North and South Poles. || ", "hits": 70 }, { "id": 10762, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10762/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-04-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA DLN Presents Earth Day with Landsat", "description": "These are excerpts from an Earth Day DLN webcast that features scientists and engineers discussing how the Landsat mission has helped us see and study our changing planet. || ", "hits": 21 }, { "id": 10741, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10741/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-03-30T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Planetary Science: Astrogeology Profiles", "description": "Meet some of the people in NASA Goddard's Planetary Science division. || ", "hits": 56 }, { "id": 3764, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3764/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-08-19T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "How Much Carbon do Plants Take from the Atmosphere?", "description": "Plant life converts atmospheric carbon dioxide into biomass through photosynthesis, a process called 'fixing'. This is one of the main ways in which carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere and is a major part of the carbon cycle. The amount of carbon removed is called the gross primary productivity (GPP), and the change in GPP due to rising global temperatures is very important factor in the response of the Earth to climate change.Data from the MODIS instrument on NASA's Terra satellite has been recently used to calculate the GPP for the whole world for the last 10 years. This animation shows a time sequence of GPP on land as measured by MODIS during the years 2000 through 2009. Two things to note are the year-long productivity of the tropical regions and the large seasonal productivity in the northern hemisphere. A close look at the animation also reveals major urban areas for which the productivity is negligible.For a look at why the decade from 2000 through 2009 meant lower productivity, see the page 'How has the Atmospheric Carbon Uptake from Plants Changed in the Last Decade?' || ", "hits": 198 }, { "id": 3765, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3765/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-08-19T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "How has the Atmospheric Carbon Uptake from Plants Changed in the Last Decade?", "description": "Plant life converts atmospheric carbon dioxide into biomass through photosynthesis. This process, called fixing, is one of the main ways in which carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere and is a major part of the carbon cycle. Plants release a fraction of this fixed carbon by respiration in order to get energy to live and to move carbon to other organs. The amount of carbon removed minus the amount of carbon respired is called the net primary productivity (NPP) and is the amount of carbon turned into biomass.The change in NPP due to rising global temperatures is a very important factor in the response of the Earth to climate change. Measurements of radiation and leaf area from the MODIS instrument on NASA's Terra satellite have recently been used to calculate the change in NPP for the whole world for the last 10 years. This animation shows a time sequence of annual NPP deviation from normal (or 'anomaly') on land as measured by MODIS during the years 2000 through 2009. Annual NPP, especially its departures from a long-term mean condition, will demonstrate the effects of environmental drivers such as ENSO (El Niño) events, climate change, droughts, pollution episodes, land degradation, and agricultural expansion.Earlier studies of productivity between 1982 and 1999 showed that prouctivity went up as global temperatures rose, because longer, warmer growing seasons were better for plant growth. This new study indicates that this is still true in the northern hemisphere, but that increased temperatures have meant increased drought and dryness in the tropics and the southern hemisphere. As a result, the global net productivity has actually decreased in the period from 2000 through 2009.Regionally, negative annual NPP anomalies were mainly caused by large-scale droughts. In 2000, droughts reduced NPP in North America and China; in 2002, droughts reduced NPP in North America and Australia; in 2003, drought caused by a major heat wave reduced NPP in Europe; in 2005, severe droughts in the Amazon, Africa, and Australia greatly reduced both regional and global NPP; from 2007 through 2009 over large parts of Australia, continuous droughts reduced continental NPP.For an animation of daily productivity, see the page How Much Carbon do Plants Take from the Atmosphere?. || ", "hits": 142 }, { "id": 3737, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3737/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-06-22T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Tropospheric Column Ozone", "description": "These visuals present retrieved global distribution of tropospheric column ozone from NASA's AURA spacecraft. Tropospheric ozone is close the ground and a component of pollution. This should be distinguished from high-altitude (stratospheric) ozone which shields the Earth's surface from ultraviolet radiation. Ozone measurements from the OMI and MLS instruments on board the Aura satellite are used for deriving global distributions of tropospheric column ozone (TCO). TCO is determined using the tropospheric ozone residual method which involves subtracting measurements of MLS stratospheric column ozone (SCO) from OMI total column ozone after adjusting for intercalibration differences of the two instruments using the convective-cloud differential method. The derived TCO field, which covers one complete year of mostly continuous daily measurements from January 2005 through December 2006, is used for studying the regional and global pollution on a timescale of a few days to months. MLS and OMI are two out of a total of four instruments on board the Aura spacecraft which is flown in a sunsynchronous polar orbit at 705 km altitude with a 98.2 degree inclination. The spacecraft has an equatorial crossing time of 1:45 pm (ascending node) with around 98.8 min per orbit (14.6 orbits per day on average). OMI is a nadir-scanning instrument that at visible (350-500 nm) and UV wavelength channels (UV-1: 270-314 nm; UV-2: 306-380 nm) detects backscattered solar radiance to measure column ozone. The MLS instrument is a thermal-emission microwave limb sounder that measures vertical profiles of mesospheric, stratospheric, and upper tropospheric temperature, ozone and other constituents from limb scans ahead of the Aura satellite. The MLS profile measurements are taken about 7 min before OMI views the same location during ascending (daytime) orbital tracks. These are referred as \"collocated\" measurements between OMI and MLS. The data shows signals due to convection, biomass burning, stratospheric influence, pollution, and transport. They are capable of capturing the spatiotemporal evolution of tropospheric column ozone. For more information see the links below: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/ozone_resource_page.htmlhttp://acdb-ext.gsfc.nasa.gov/Data_services/cloud_slice/#nd || ", "hits": 90 }, { "id": 3707, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3707/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-05-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Five Spheres - Land Changes through NDVI", "description": "Satellite data can be used to monitor the health of plant life from space. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) provides a simple numerical indicator of the health of vegetation which can be used to monitoring changes in vegetation over time. This animation shows the seasonal changes in vegetation by fading between average monthly NDVI data from 2004. This animation of land changes is match framed to animation id a003708, a003709, a003710, and a003711. || ", "hits": 129 }, { "id": 3708, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3708/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-05-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Five Spheres - Tropospheric Ozone", "description": "Satellite data can be used to monitor the health of the atmosphere from space. This animation of atmospheric changes is match framed to animation entries 3707, 3709, 3710, and 3711. This dataset shows tropospheric ozone, which is close to the ground and a component of pollution. This should be distinguished from high altitude (stratospheric) ozone which shields the Earth's surface from ultraviolet radiation.For more information about tropospheric ozone see the links below:http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/ozone_resource_page.htmlhttp://www.ozonelayer.noaa.gov/science/basics.htm || ", "hits": 42 }, { "id": 3709, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3709/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-05-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Five Spheres - Biosphere", "description": "Satellite data can be used to monitor the health of the biosphere from space. This animation of seasonal changes to the biosphere is match framed to animation entries 3707, 3708, 3710, and 3711. The SeaWiFS instrument is carried aboard the satellite OrbView-2, providing important information about the oceans, the land, and the life within them. On land, the dark greens show where there is abundant vegetation and tans show relatively sparse plant cover. In the oceans, red, yellow, and green pixels show dense phytoplankton blooms, those regions of the ocean that are the most productive over time, while blues and purples show where there is very little of the microscopic marine plants called phytoplankton. For most of the world's oceans, the most important things that influence its color are phytoplankton. Phytoplankton are very small, single-celled plants, generally smaller than the size of a pinhead that contain a green pigment called chlorophyll. All plants (on land and in the ocean) use chlorophyll to capture energy from the sun and through the process known as photosynthesis convert water and carbon dioxide into new plant material and oxygen. Although microscopic, phytoplankton can bloom in such large numbers that they can change the color of the ocean to such a degree that we can measure that change from space. The basic principle behind the remote sensing of ocean color from space is this: the more phytoplankton in the water, the greener it is...the less phytoplankton, the bluer it is. For more information, visit http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/SeaWiFS/. || ", "hits": 175 }, { "id": 3710, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3710/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-05-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Five Spheres - Cryosphere", "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 Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) instrument on the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Aqua satellite, provides data mapped to a polar stereographic grid at 12.5 km spatial resolution. This satellite data can be used to monitor the health of the cryosphere from space. This animation of sea ice changes in the Arctic is match framed to animation entries 3707, 3708, 3709, and 3711. Over the water, Arctic sea ice changes from day to day showing a running 3-day maximum sea ice concentration in the region where the concentration is greater than 15%. The blueish white color of the sea ice is derived from a 3-day running maximum of the AMSR-E 89 GHz brightness temperature. Over the terrain, monthly data from the seasonal Blue Marble Next Generation fades slowly from month to month.For more information about sea ice see http://nsidc.org/data/amsre or http://modis-snow-ice.gsfc.nasa.gov. || ", "hits": 31 }, { "id": 3711, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3711/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-05-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Five Spheres - Water", "description": "Satellite data can be used to observe the dramatic ebb and flow of the our planet's water system from space. This animation of QuikSCAT's sea surface winds is match framed to animation entries 3707, 3708, 3709, and 3710. The SeaWinds Scatterometer instrument on the QuikSCAT satellite captures the always moving and complex sea surface. The mission has also provided critical information for monitoring, modeling, forecasting and researching our atmosphere, ocean and climate.By any measure of success, the 10-year-old QuikSCAT mission is a unique national resource that has achieved and far surpassed its science objectives. Designed for a two-year lifetime, QuikSCAT has been used around the globe by the world's operational meteorological agencies to improve weather forecasts and identify the location, size and strength of hurricanes and other storms in the open ocean. More information on QuikSCAT is online at: http://winds.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/quikscat/index.cfm. || ", "hits": 18 }, { "id": 10486, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10486/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-09-17T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LOLA: Defining the Lunar Terrain", "description": "The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) instrument on board NASA's LRO spacecraft will be responsible for building the highest detail topography currently available of the lunar terrain. In this video David Smith, LOLA's Principal Investigator, explains how this technology works.For complete transcript, click here. || LOLAvideo_ipod.00502_print.jpg (1024x576) [28.3 KB] || LOLAvideo_ipod_web.png (320x180) [41.6 KB] || LOLAvideo_ipod_thm.png (80x40) [4.4 KB] || LOLAvideo_appletv.webmhd.webm (960x540) [43.0 MB] || LOLAvideo_appletv.m4v (960x540) [99.2 MB] || LOLAvideo_youtube.mov (1280x720) [58.9 MB] || LOLAvideo_h264.mov (1280x720) [301.3 MB] || LOLAvideo_prores.mov (1280x720) [3.6 GB] || LOLAvideo_ipod.m4v (640x360) [45.4 MB] || LOLAvideo_ipodsm.m4v (320x180) [16.6 MB] || LOLAvideo_portal.wmv (320x236) [20.0 MB] || LOLAvideo_SVS.mpg (512x288) [35.2 MB] || ", "hits": 59 }, { "id": 3622, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3622/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-07-27T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Great Zoom into/out of New Orleans, Louisiana: Ernest N. Morial Convention Center", "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 through 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 zoom in to the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana was created for a presentation at SIGGRAPH 2009. || ", "hits": 25 }, { "id": 3602, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3602/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-07-07T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "TDRS Poster of the Northern Hemisphere", "description": "The Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS) comprise the communication satellite component of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS). TDRSS is a communication signal relay system which provides tracking and data aquisition services between low earth orbiting spacecraft and control and/or data processing facilities. TDRS supports many of NASA's missions including the space shuttles, Hubble and COBE. This image was created as a background for a 6 foot by 4 foot mural for display in Building 12 at Goddard Space Flight Center. The final poster will include a indication of the TDRSS ground segment located newr LasCruces, New Mexico as well as insets of several of the spacecraft that TDRSS supports. || ", "hits": 35 }, { "id": 3584, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3584/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-06-05T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Global View of Seasonal NDVI", "description": "Satellite data can be used to monitor the health of plant life from space. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) provides a simple numerical indicator of the health of vegetation which can be used to monitoring changes in vegetation over time. This animation shows the seasonal changes in vegetation by fading between average monthly NDVI data from 2004. The loop begins on September 24 and repeats six times during one full rotation of the globe at a rate of one frame per day. The fade for each month is complete on the 15th of each month. || ", "hits": 85 }, { "id": 3457, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3457/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-05-27T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Three Images of North America", "description": "A Song for the Horse Nation, an exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian shown from November 14, 2009 through March 7, 2011, presents the epic story of the horse's influence on American Indian tribes from the 1600s to the present. Drawing upon a treasure-trove of stunning historical objects-including ledger drawings, hoof ornaments, beaded bags, hide robes, paintings, and other objects-and new pieces by contemporary Native artists, the exhibition reveals how horses shaped the social, economic, cultural, and spiritual foundations of American Indian life, particularly on the Great Plains.The story of American Indians and horses is one of the great sagas of human contact with the animal kingdom. The foundation of this extraordinary relationship was laid in 1493, when Christopher Columbus brought the first horses to the Western Hemisphere. As Spaniards surged westward from the Caribbean and northwards from Mexico, American Indians caught their first glimpse of the horse, and soon adopted it into their world. Horses revolutionized Native life and became an integral part of tribal cultures, honored in objects, stories, songs, and ceremonies. By the 1800s, Native American horsemanship was legendary in American culture at large, celebrated in paintings, photographs, Wild West shows, and later in movies and television programs. Today, the image of the mounted Native warrior remains fixed in the American imagination. With traditional and contemporary stories, songs, and poetry and using archival photographs, lithographs, maps, books, magazines, and audio-visual presentations, the exhibition brings the story up to the present, demonstrating that the horse, though no longer ubiquitous, is still venerated in Indian Country today.This exhibition is an outgrowth of the NMAI publication A Song for the Horse Nation: Horses in Native American Cultures, edited by George P. Horse Capture and Emil Her Many Horses (2006).In support of this exhibit, these three images showing the topography and seasonal landcover over North America were created as a background for an 'interactive map' where museum visitors can learn about the relationship between humans and horses over hundreds of years, and how trade, migration, and technology impacted this relationship. || ", "hits": 83 }, { "id": 3487, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3487/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-06-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Draining the Oceans", "description": "Three fifths of the Earth's surface is under the ocean, and the ocean floor is as rich in detail as the land surface with which we are familiar. This animation simulates a drop in sea level that gradually reveals this detail. As the sea level drops, the continental shelves appear immediately. They are mostly visible by a depth of 140 meters, except for the Arctic and Antarctic regions, where the shelves are deeper. The mid-ocean ridges start to appear at a depth of 2000 to 3000 meters. By 6000 meters, most of the ocean is drained except for the deep ocean trenches, the deepest of which is the Marianas Trench at a depth of 10,911 meters. || ", "hits": 2061 }, { "id": 3523, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3523/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-01-07T00:00:00-05:00", "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). || ", "hits": 61 }, { "id": 3380, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3380/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2006-11-14T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Great Zoom into Chicago, IL: The Adler Planetarium", "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 Adler Planetarium. The Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum in Chicago, Illinois was built in 1930 by philanthropist Max Adler. It is located on the shore of Lake Michigan near the Shedd Aquarium, the Field Museum of Natural History, and Soldier Field. || ", "hits": 52 }, { "id": 3381, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3381/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2006-11-14T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Great Zoom out of Chicago, IL: The Adler Planetarium", "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 Adler Planetarium. The Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum in Chicago, Illinois was built in 1930 by philanthropist Max Adler. It is located on the shore of Lake Michigan near the Shedd Aquarium, the Field Museum of Natural History, and Soldier Field. || ", "hits": 24 }, { "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": 16 }, { "id": 3117, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3117/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-03-10T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Great Zoom into Kodak Theater with spin (Los Angeles, CA)", "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.This visualization is the first time we have incorporated topographic relief into a great zoom. This particular visualization was created at the request of ABC to use in the opening of the 2003 Academy Awards; however, due to Iraqi war coverage with zooms that appeared similar, the visualization was pulled at the last minute. This version was re-rendered for the 2005 Academy Awards to change the name on the roof back to the original 'Kodak Theatre' signage.This zoom was shown at the opening of the Academy Awards 'Red Carpet Show' at 8:00pm EST on February 27, 2005 on the ABC television network. || ", "hits": 8 }, { "id": 3118, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3118/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-03-10T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Great Zoom out from Kodak Theater with spin (Los Angeles, CA)", "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. This visualization is the first time we have incorporated topographic relief into a great zoom.This version was re-rendered for the 2005 Academy Awards to change the name on the roof back to the original 'Kodak Theatre' signage. The 'zoom in' version of this zoom was shown at the opening of the Academy Awards 'Red Carpet Show' at 8:00pm EST on February 27, 2005 on the ABC television network. || ", "hits": 8 }, { "id": 3029, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3029/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-01-12T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Zoom into Austin, Texas, using Landsat Imagery (WMS)", "description": "The WMS Global Mosaic data set was developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). This global mosaic was produced from visual and near infrared bands taken by the Landsat-7 satellite. Using the panchromatic band to sharpen the final image, a final resolution of 0.5 arc seconds (about 15 meters) can be achieved. This mosaic is available through the Web Mapping Services (WMS) protocol at JPL. This series of images was obtained using a software program called the Digital Earth PC which can use the WMS protocol to obtain images covering an arbitrary region of the earth. These images can be arranged in such a way with the Digital Earth PC software that a nearly continuous zoom effect can be achieved. || ", "hits": 59 }, { "id": 3030, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3030/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-01-12T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Zoom into Boulder, Colorado, using Landsat Imagery (WMS)", "description": "The WMS Global Mosaic data set was developed at NASA's Jet Propulstion Laboratory (JPL). This global mosaic was produced from visual and near infrared bands taken by the Landsat-7 satellite. Using the panchromatic band to sharpen the final image, a final resolution of 0.5 arc seconds (about 15 meters) can be achieved. This mosaic is available through the Web Mapping Services (WMS) protocol at JPL. This series of images was obtained using a software program called the Digital Earth PC which can use the WMS protocol to obtain images covering an arbitrary region of the earth. These images can be arranged in such a way with the Digital Earth PC software that a nearly continuous zoom effect can be achieved. || ", "hits": 8 }, { "id": 3031, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3031/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-01-12T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Zoom into NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, using Landsat Imagery (WMS)", "description": "The WMS Global Mosaic data set was developed at NASA's Jet Propulstion Laboratory (JPL). 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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": 132 }, { "id": 2970, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2970/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-08-05T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Volumetric Visualization of the Convection-generated Stresses in Earth", "description": "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. || ", "hits": 35 }, { "id": 2969, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2969/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-08-03T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Glaciers Spur Alaskan Earthquakes", "description": "In a new study, NASA and United States Geological Survey (USGS) scientists found that retreating glaciers in southern Alaska may be opening the way for future earthquakes. The study examined the likelihood of increased earthquake activity in southern Alaska as a result of rapidly melting glaciers. As glaciers melt they lighten the load on the Earth's crust. Tectonic plates, that are mobile pieces of the Earth's crust, can then move more freely, which increases the probability of earthquakes occurring in this region. || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 2968, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2968/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-08-02T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Retreating Glaciers Spur Alaskan Earthquakes", "description": "The study examined the likelihood of increased earthquake activity in southern Alaska as a result of rapidly melting glaciers. As glaciers melt they lighten the load on the Earth's crust. Tectonic plates, that are mobile pieces of the Earth's crust, can then move more freely. || ", "hits": 104 }, { "id": 2915, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2915/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-02-16T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Blue Marble - A Seamless Image Mosaic of the Earth (WMS)", "description": "This spectacular 'Blue Marble' image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer (0.386 square mile) of our planet. Much of the information contained in this image came from a single remote-sensing device-NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS. Flying over 700 km above the Earth onboard the Terra satellite, MODIS provides an integrated tool for observing a variety of terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric features of the Earth. The land and coastal ocean portions of these images are based on surface observations collected from June through September 2001 and combined, or composited, every eight days to compensate for clouds that might block the sensor's view of the surface on any single day. Two different types of ocean data were used in these images: shallow water true color data, and global ocean color (or chlorophyll) data. Topographic shading is based on the GTOPO 30 elevation data set compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center. || ", "hits": 659 }, { "id": 2909, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2909/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-02-13T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Wildfire Growth around Yellowstone National Park in 1988 (WMS)", "description": "During the summer of 1988, wildfires burned about 1.4 million acres in and around Yellowstone National Park. Spurred by the driest summer in park history, the fires started in early July and lasted until early October. The worst day was August 20, when tremendous winds pushed the fires to burn over 150,000 acres. Although the scars from these fires are still visible in Landsat imagery from space over ten years later, the patchwork nature of the fire footprint left many unburned areas from which plant species have regenerated very successfully. This animation shows how the fires progressed in the period from June 30 though October 2, 1988, by which time the fall rain and snow had stopped the fire growth. These maps are based on daily ground observations by fire lookouts in the park and by infrared imaging cameras flown over the park at night. These observations are considered accurate to within about 100 meters. || ", "hits": 77 }, { "id": 2885, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2885/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-01-31T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Great Zoom out of 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": 21 }, { "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. 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There were tentative plans to use this visualization in the 2004 Academy Award coverage - but it was pulled from the lineup at the last minute due in part to the war in Iraq. || ", "hits": 7 }, { "id": 2732, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2732/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-01-14T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Great Zoom out from the Kodak Theater (Los Angeles, CA)", "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. This visualization is the first time we have incorporated topographic relief into a great zoom. This particular visualization was created at the request of ABC to use in the opening of the 2003 Academy Awards; however, due to Iraqi war coverage with zooms that appeared similar, the visualization was pulled at the last minute. There were tentative plans to use this visualization in the 2004 Academy Award coverage - but it was pulled from the lineup at the last minute due in part to the war in Iraq. || ", "hits": 10 }, { "id": 2733, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2733/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-01-14T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Great Zoom into the Kodak Theater with Spin (Los Angeles, CA)", "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. 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There were tentative plans to use this visualization in the 2004 Academy Award coverage - but it was pulled from the lineup at the last minute due in part to the war in Iraq. || ", "hits": 6 }, { "id": 2781, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2781/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-08-08T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "GPM Nile River Animation", "description": "Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission is to improve ongoing efforts to predict climate, improve the accuracy of weather and precipitation forecasts, and to provide more frequent and complete sampling of the Earth's precipitation. || ", "hits": 26 }, { "id": 2782, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2782/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-08-08T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "GPM Earth Spin Animation", "description": "Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission is to improve ongoing efforts to predict climate, improve the accuracy of weather and precipitation forecasts, and to provide more frequent and complete sampling of the Earth's precipitation. || ", "hits": 143 }, { "id": 2749, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2749/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-06-10T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Great Zoom into Tucson, AZ: Sabino Canyon", "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. 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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 particular zoom was created for a talk given by Greg Shirah and Jim Williams at the George Washington University. || ", "hits": 6 }, { "id": 2730, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2730/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-04-22T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Great Zoom out from GWU", "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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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 particular zoom was created for Garik Gutman (NASA/HQ) with the Land Cover-Land Use Change Program. || ", "hits": 12 }, { "id": 2728, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2728/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-04-10T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Great Zoom out of Siberia", "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. This particular zoom was created for Garik Gutman (NASA/HQ) with the Land Cover-Land Use Change Program. || ", "hits": 6 }, { "id": 2708, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2708/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-03-19T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Rotating Blue Marble Globe", "description": "The Terra/MODIS project has released a beautiful set of Blue Marble imagery. The data is place on a globe and rotated. || ", "hits": 216 }, { "id": 2709, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2709/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-03-19T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Rotating Blue Marble Globe with Clouds", "description": "The Terra/MODIS project has released a beautiful set of Blue Marble imagery. 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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. || ", "hits": 12 }, { "id": 2666, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2666/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-01-14T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Great Zoom Mosaic - Zoom In", "description": "This is a mosaic of zooms into 20 different locations prepared to support a paper given at IEEE Visualization 2002. The locations are: Long Beach, CA; New York City, NY; San Fransisco, CA; NASA-Goddard, Boston, MA; New Orleans, LA, Salt Lake City, UT; Sabie River, Africa; Park City, UT, Chicago, IL; Mongu, Africa; Salt Lake City, UT; Amazon, Brazil; Los Angeles, CA; Baltimore, MD; Snwo Basin, UT; Atlanta, GA; Washington, DC; Orlando, FL; and Seattle, WA. 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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. || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 2668, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2668/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2003-01-14T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Great Zoom into New Orleans, LA: The Louisiana Superdome (b-roll)", "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.This zoom was created to support a paper given at IEEE Vis 2002. || ", "hits": 10 }, { "id": 2669, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2669/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2003-01-14T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Great Zoom out of New Orleans, LA: The Louisiana Superdome (b-roll)", "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.This zoom was created to support a paper given at IEEE Vis 2002. || ", "hits": 12 }, { "id": 2670, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2670/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-01-14T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Great Zoom into New Orleans, LA: The Louisiana Superdome (masks visible)", "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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