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But, what is a temperature record?GISTEMP, NASA’s global temperature analysis, takes in millions of observations from instruments on weather stations, ships and ocean buoys, and Antarctic research stations, to determine how much warmer or cooler Earth is on average from year to year.Stretching back to 1880, NASA’s record shows a clear warming trend. However, individual weather events and La Niña — a pattern of cooler waters in the Pacific that was responsible for slightly cooling 2021’s average temperature — can affect individual years.Because the record is global, not every place on Earth experienced the sixth warmest year on record. Some places had record-high temperatures, and we saw record droughts, floods and fires around the globe. || ", "hits": 97 }, { "id": 31121, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31121/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2020-02-12T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Lighting Paths Across the United States", "description": "VIIRS DNB compared with a map of major highways, railways, and rivers || lighting-paths_00000_print.jpg (1024x576) [94.3 KB] || lighting-paths_00000_searchweb.png (320x180) [57.1 KB] || lighting-paths_00000_thm.png (80x40) [4.8 KB] || lighting-paths_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [8.8 MB] || lighting-paths_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [2.3 MB] || lighting-paths_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [32.2 MB] || 3840x2160_16x9_30p (3840x2160) [64.0 KB] || ", "hits": 59 }, { "id": 13197, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13197/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-02-11T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "Gravitational Wave Simulations of Merging Black Holes: 1080 and 8k Resolutions", "description": "This visualization shows gravitational waves emitted by two black holes (black spheres) of nearly equal mass as they spiral together and merge. Yellow structures near the black holes illustrate the strong curvature of space-time in the region. Orange ripples represent distortions of space-time caused by the rapidly orbiting masses. These distortions spread out and weaken, ultimately becoming gravitational waves (purple). The merger timescale depends on the masses of the black holes. For a system containing black holes with about 30 times the sun’s mass, similar to the one detected by LIGO in 2015, the orbital period at the start of the movie is just 65 milliseconds, with the black holes moving at about 15 percent the speed of light. Space-time distortions radiate away orbital energy and cause the binary to contract quickly. As the two black holes near each other, they merge into a single black hole that settles into its \"ringdown\" phase, where the final gravitational waves are emitted. For the 2015 LIGO detection, these events played out in little more than a quarter of a second. This simulation was performed on the Pleiades supercomputer at NASA's Ames Research Center. Fixed view.Credit: NASA/Bernard J. Kelly (Goddard and Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County), Chris Henze (Ames) and Tim Sandstrom (CSC Government Solutions LLC)Watch this video on the NASAgovVideo YouTube channel. || Merger_Fixed_Still.png (1920x1080) [1.2 MB] || Merger_Fixed_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [59.6 KB] || BH_merger_fixed_camera_close_H264_YouTube_720p.mp4 (1280x720) [65.5 MB] || BH_merger_fixed_camera_close_H264_YouTube_1080p.mp4 (1920x1080) [65.2 MB] || BH_merger_fixed_camera_close_H264_YouTube_720p.webm (1280x720) [3.9 MB] || BH_merger_fixed_camera_close_ProRes_1920x1080.mov (1920x1080) [1.1 GB] || ", "hits": 413 }, { "id": 13213, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13213/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2019-05-31T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "STSCI Operation Control Room B-Roll", "description": "B-Roll footage of engineers working in the Phil Sabelhaus Flight Control Room at the Space Telescope Science Institute located within John Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 40373, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/general-relativity/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2019-05-29T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "General Relativity", "description": "This is a collection of media resources available on the Scientific Visualization Studio website relating to Einstein's general theory of relativity. \n\nMore information and media can be found at:\nNASA's Blueshift Blog\n100 Years of General Relativity\nHow Scientists Captured the First Image of a Black Hole\n\nFor students and teachers:\nNASA's Space PLace - Einstein\nNASA's Cosmic Times - the universe\nNASA's Cosmic Times - pulsar gravitational waves\nNASA's Physics and Engineering Collection\nGravity's Grin\n\n\nNews and missions:\nThree Ways to Travel at (Nearly) the Speed of Light\nGravity Probe B\nLISA - Laser Interferometer Space Antenna\nScientist further confirms Einstein’s theory through new solar research\nLIGO Has Detected Gravitational Waves\nSimulation Sheds Light on Spiraling Supermassive Black Holes\nResults of Epic Space-Time Experiment\nListening for Gravitational Waves Using Pulsars \nBlack Hole Image Makes History\nTracking the Motion of Mercury", "hits": 254 }, { "id": 12469, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12469/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-12-06T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "PACE Satellite Animations", "description": "PACE is NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission, currently in the design phase of mission development. It is scheduled to launch in 2022, extending and improving NASA's over 20-year record of satellite observations of global ocean biology, aerosols (tiny particles suspended in the atmosphere), and clouds. PACE will advance the assessment of ocean health by measuring the distribution of phytoplankton, tiny plants and algae that sustain the marine food web. It will also continue systematic records of key atmospheric variables associated with air quality and Earth's climate. || ", "hits": 66 }, { "id": 13080, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13080/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2018-10-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "James Webb Space Telescope Beryllium Mining and Manufacturing B-Roll", "description": "B-Roll footage of the mining site where the beryllium for the James Space Telescope was found, and of the manufacturing facility where the beryllium was used to create the mirrors for the Telescope. || Beryllium_Mining_and_Manufacturing_B-Roll_SS_print.jpg (1024x571) [70.8 KB] || Beryllium_Mining_and_Manufacturing_B-Roll_SS.png (2874x1604) [4.2 MB] || Beryllium_Mining_and_Manufacturing_B-Roll_SS_searchweb.png (320x180) [90.0 KB] || Beryllium_Mining_and_Manufacturing_B-Roll_SS_thm.png (80x40) [7.3 KB] || JWST_Mining_and_Manufacturing_B-Roll_.mov (1920x1080) [3.7 GB] || JWST_Mining_and_Manufacturing_B-Roll_.mp4 (1920x1080) [344.2 MB] || JWST_Mining_and_Manufacturing_B-Roll_.webmhd.webm (1080x606) [66.3 MB] || ", "hits": 29 }, { "id": 13030, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13030/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-08-06T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Planet-Hunting TESS Catches a Comet Before Starting Science", "description": "This video is compiled from a series of images taken on July 25 by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. The angular extent of the widest field of view is six degrees. Visible in the images are the comet C/2018 N1, asteroids, variable stars, asteroids and reflected light from Mars. TESS is expected to find thousands of planets around other nearby stars. Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology/NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || TESS_Comet_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [409.0 KB] || TESS_Comet_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [112.2 KB] || TESS_Comet_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [50.8 KB] || TESS_Comet_Still_thm.png (80x40) [3.8 KB] || 13030_TESS_Comet_ProRes_1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [1.7 GB] || 13030_TESS_Comet_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [118.6 MB] || 13030_TESS_Comet_H264_1080_Best.mov (1920x1080) [173.0 MB] || 13030_TESS_Comet_H264_1080_Good.m4v (1920x1080) [114.8 MB] || 13030_TESS_Comet_ProRes_1080_2997.webm (1920x1080) [10.8 MB] || 13030_TESS_Comet_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [1.3 KB] || 13030_TESS_Comet_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [1.3 KB] || ", "hits": 56 }, { "id": 12789, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12789/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-12-11T12:30:00-05:00", "title": "AGU Press Conference - Eclipse 2017: Studying the Sun-Earth Connection and More from the Moon’s Shadow", "description": "While people across North America took in the Aug. 21 eclipse, hundreds of citizen, student, and professional scientists were collecting scientific data. They gathered data with telescopes on the ground, balloons launched to the stratosphere, jets chasing the Moon’s shadow, and satellites far above Earth. In this panel, participants will share some of the initial results from a cross-section of these studies, in fields ranging from solar physics to Earth science to space biology. Panelists:•Lika Guhathakurta, NASA Headquarters/NASA Ames Research Center•Amir Caspi, Southwest Research Institute•Matt Penn, National Solar Observatory •Angela Des Jardins, Montana State University•Greg Earle, Virginia Tech •Jay Herman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Maryland Baltimore County || ", "hits": 35 }, { "id": 30923, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30923/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2017-12-07T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Calving of A-68 from the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica 2016-2017", "description": "Developing rift || LarsenC_2016_2017_LandsatVIIRSMODIS_Series.Slide3_print.jpg (1024x574) [202.9 KB] || LarsenC_2016_2017_LandsatVIIRSMODIS_Series.Slide3.png (4104x2304) [11.3 MB] || ", "hits": 41 }, { "id": 30914, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30914/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2017-12-06T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "Pine Island Glacier Retreat, Antarctica", "description": "This visualization shows Sentinel-1 imagery from October 2014 to October 2017 over Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica. The advance and retreat of the front of this ~35-kilometer (~22-mile) wide outlet glacier can be seen in this 6-day interval image series. The rapid flow of inland ice causes the glacier front to advance and two major calving events cause the ice front to retreat.Combined, the 2015 and 2017 calving events have led to the glacier’s ice front being fully disconnected from the North Ice Shelf. The changes to this large outlet from West Antarctica could signal additional sea level contributions from this glacier and the even larger outlet to the west, Thwaites Glacier.Credit: Stef Lhermitte, Delft University of Technology, NetherlandsContains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2017), processed by ESA || pine_island_1080p.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [180.8 KB] || pine_island_1080p.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [98.2 KB] || pine_island_1080p.00001_thm.png (80x40) [6.7 KB] || pine_island_1080p.mp4 (1920x1080) [54.5 MB] || pine_island_720p.mp4 (1280x720) [26.3 MB] || pine_island_1080p.webm (1920x1080) [5.0 MB] || 4104x2304_16x9_30p (4104x2304) [0 Item(s)] || pine_island_2304p.mp4 (4096x2304) [156.5 MB] || ", "hits": 49 }, { "id": 12632, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12632/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-06-05T18:50:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Interns Arrive at Goddard - Summer 2017", "description": "Hundreds of students began their summer internships at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on June 5, 2017. Learn more about becoming a NASA intern at intern.nasa.gov. Keep an eye on nasa.gov/goddard throughout the summer for more stories on our interns.Read the web story here. || ", "hits": 29 }, { "id": 30864, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30864/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2017-03-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Spiral Galaxy Messier 106 from Hubble", "description": "An image of the spiral galaxy M106 created through a comibination of Hubble data and ground-based images || m106-hst_gendler-4148x3240_print.jpg (1024x799) [156.5 KB] || m106-hst_gendler-4148x3240.png (4148x3240) [20.8 MB] || m106-hst_gendler-4148x3240_searchweb.png (320x180) [86.1 KB] || m106-hst_gendler-4148x3240_thm.png (80x40) [6.9 KB] || m106-hst_gendler-30864.key [21.3 MB] || m106-hst_gendler-30864.pptx [20.9 MB] || ", "hits": 31 }, { "id": 12428, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12428/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-12-02T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Hubble Facilities", "description": "NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the Hubble Space Telescope Operations Project, the government’s team of technical managers and scientists who oversee all aspects of the Hubble mission. Under its direction, an integrated group of civil servants and contractors at Goddard collectively known as the operations team is responsible for Hubble’s mission operations—those functions of the mission that operate together to assure the health, safety, and performance of the spacecraft. Examples include monitoring and adjusting the spacecraft’s subsystems (e.g. power, thermal, data management, pointing control, etc.), flight software development, sustaining engineering of the control center hardware and software, and systems administration of the network and ground system components.A separate contractor team at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore is similarly responsible for science operations—the functions necessary to award telescope time, schedule observations, calibrate the received data, and archive the datasets. Working closely together, Goddard and the STScI operate Hubble 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, though most of the commanding to the telescope and receipt of its science data is accomplished by computers via automated operations. || ", "hits": 59 }, { "id": 30815, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30815/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2016-10-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Europa Water", "description": "New findings from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show suspected water plumes erupting from Jupiter's icy moon Europa. These observations bolster earlier Hubble work suggesting that Europa is venting water vapor. A team of astronomers, led by William Sparks of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, observed these finger-like projections while viewing Europa's limb as the moon passed in front of Jupiter. The team was inspired to use this observing method by studies of atmospheres of planets orbiting other stars. || ", "hits": 25 }, { "id": 12352, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12352/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-09-06T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "OSIRIS-REx Live Shots", "description": "B-Roll that goes along with the live shots.Click for a gallery of OSIRIS-REx VIDEO AND GRAPHICSClick for more information about OSIRIS-REx || 013_B-Roll.webm (1280x720) [30.7 MB] || 013_B-Roll.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [76.5 KB] || 013_B-Roll.mp4 (1280x720) [466.7 MB] || 013_B-Roll.mov (1280x720) [3.9 GB] || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 12218, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12218/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-04-28T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi Helps Link a Cosmic Neutrino to a Blazar Outburst", "description": "NASA Goddard scientist Roopesh Ojha explains how Fermi and TANAMI uncovered the first plausible link between a blazar eruption and a neutrino from deep space. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || UniverseHD1845_print.jpg (1024x576) [135.3 KB] || UniverseHD1845_searchweb.png (320x180) [85.8 KB] || UniverseHD1845_web.png (180x320) [85.8 KB] || UniverseHD1845_thm.png (80x40) [6.3 KB] || UniverseHD1845.tif (1920x1080) [7.9 MB] || 12218_Fermi_Blazar_Neutrino_FINAL_appletv.webm (1280x720) [30.3 MB] || 12218_Fermi_Blazar_Neutrino_FINAL_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [138.0 MB] || 12218_Fermi_Blazar_Neutrino_FINAL_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [138.1 MB] || 12218_Fermi_Blazar_Neutrino_H264_Good_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [315.8 MB] || 12218_Fermi_Blazar_Neutrino.mp4 (1920x1080) [292.0 MB] || 12218_Fermi_Blazar_Neutrino_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [4.8 KB] || 12218_Fermi_Blazar_Neutrino_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.8 KB] || 12218_Fermi_Blazar_Neutrino_FINAL_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [1.3 GB] || 12218_Fermi_Blazar_Neutrino_FINAL_lowres.mp4 (480x272) [38.6 MB] || 12218_Fermi_Blazar_Neutrino_H264_Best_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.3 GB] || 12218_Fermi_Blazar_Neutrino_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [3.6 GB] || ", "hits": 108 }, { "id": 12216, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12216/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-04-18T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Fermi Preps to Narrow Down Gravitational Wave Sources", "description": "Fermi's GBM saw a fading X-ray flash at nearly the same moment LIGO detected gravitational waves from a black hole merger in 2015. This movie shows how scientists can narrow down the location of the LIGO source on the assumption that the burst is connected to it. In this case, the LIGO search area is reduced by two-thirds. Greater improvements are possible in future detections.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Watch this video on the NASAgovVideo YouTube channel. || LIGO_GBM_Common_only_Earth.png (1920x1080) [4.2 MB] || LIGO_GBM_Common_only_Earth_print.jpg (1024x576) [168.3 KB] || LIGO_GBM_Common_only_Earth_searchweb.png (320x180) [97.0 KB] || LIGO_GBM_Common_only_Earth_web.png (320x180) [97.0 KB] || LIGO_GBM_Common_only_Earth_thm.png (80x40) [6.6 KB] || Fermi_LIGO_GBM_localizations_H264_YouTube_1080p.mp4 (1920x1080) [82.8 MB] || Fermi_LIGO_GBM_localizations_H264_720p.mp4 (1280x720) [35.4 MB] || Fermi_LIGO_GBM_localizations_H264_720p.webm (1280x720) [2.3 MB] || Fermi_LIGO_GBM_localizations_ProRes_1920x1080_30.mov (1920x1080) [431.3 MB] || 12216_Fermi_LIGO_Localization_4K.mov (4096x2304) [90.6 MB] || 12216_Fermi_LIGO_Localization_4K.m4v (3840x2160) [140.3 MB] || 12216_Fermi_LIGO_Localization_ProRes_7282x4096_30.mov (7282x4096) [6.0 GB] || ", "hits": 78 }, { "id": 12153, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12153/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-02-18T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "WFIRST: The Best of Both Worlds", "description": "With a view 100 times bigger than that of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope WFIRST will aid researchers in their efforts to unravel the secrets of dark energy and dark matter, and explore the evolution of the cosmos. It also will discover new worlds outside our solar system and advance the search for worlds that could be suitable for life. Scientists participating in the mission discuss the spacecraft, the science, and its potential. Slated to launch in the mid-2020s, the observatory will operate at a gravitational balance point known as Earth-sun L2, which is located about 930,000 miles from Earth and directly opposite the sun.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || WfirstAfta-PrintStill2_print.jpg (1024x576) [79.3 KB] || WfirstAfta-PrintStill2.png (3840x2160) [4.7 MB] || WfirstAfta-PrintStill2_searchweb.png (320x180) [59.2 KB] || WfirstAfta-PrintStill2_thm.png (80x40) [4.6 KB] || 12153_WFIRST_Best_Both_Worlds_ProRes_1280x720_5994.mov (1280x720) [3.1 GB] || 12153_WFIRST_Best_Both_Worlds_H264_Best_1280x720_5994.mov (1280x720) [1.7 GB] || 12153_WFIRST_Best_Both_Worlds_FINAL_youtube_hq.mov (1280x720) [671.5 MB] || 12153_WFIRST_Best_Both_Worlds_H264_Good_1280x720_2997.mov (1280x720) [174.0 MB] || 12153_WFIRST_Best_Both_Worlds_FINAL_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [122.3 MB] || 12153_WFIRST_Best_Both_Worlds_H264_Good_1280x720_2997.webm (1280x720) [25.0 MB] || 12153_WFIRST_Best_Both_Worlds_FINAL_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [122.4 MB] || 12153_WFIRST_BestBoth_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [4.6 KB] || 12153_WFIRST_BestBoth_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.4 KB] || NASA_PODCAST_12153_WFIRST_Best_Both_Worlds_FINAL_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [41.6 MB] || ", "hits": 69 }, { "id": 40277, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/hyperwall20-nov2015/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2015-10-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hyperwall 20 Nov 2015", "description": "Content from the November 20, 2015 Hyperwall Content News mailing list", "hits": 9 }, { "id": 4362, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4362/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-09-28T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Dust in the Wind", "description": "This gallery was created for Earth Science Week 2015 and beyond. It includes a quick start guide for educators and first-hand stories (blogs) for learners of all ages by NASA visualizers, scientists and educators. We hope that your understanding and use of NASA's visualizations will only increase as your appreciation grows for the beauty of the science they portray, and the communicative power they hold. Read all the blogs and find educational resources for all ages at: the Earth Science Week 2015 page.Each year, millions of tons of dust from the Sahara Desert in Africa is swept up into the atmosphere. The dust travels across the Atlantic Ocean, with some of it reaching as far as the Amazon Rainforest. African dust contains phosphorus, which is an important nutrient for plants, so each year the Amazon Rainforest is fertilized by dust blown all the way from Africa! We created this data visualization to tell the incredible story of this great migration.To create this visualization, I used data from NASA’s CALIPSO satellite, which measures aerosols in the atmosphere. Using Autodesk Maya and Pixar’s Renderman software (the same software Pixar uses to make movies), I created a virtual Earth with vertical walls for each time the CALIPSO satellite passed over the dust cloud. Each wall has a picture (we call them \"textures\") that represents the data collected by the satellite at that location. Each wall slices through the dust cloud, and shows us a cross-sectional view of dust distribution in the atmosphere. Although dust clouds can be seen in satellite imagery as hazy brown sections, it’s hard to determine their altitude. Knowing the height at which dust travels will help scientists determine where the dust will go, how it moves at different altitudes and how it will interact with the Earth’s climate. CALIPSO allows scientists to clearly see the shape of a dust cloud in three dimensions.The second section of the visualization describes dust flux, or how much dust flows through a specific region over a period of time. To visualize flux, I used a particle system in Autodesk Maya that creates particles at a rate and velocity relative to the flux value for a region at each time step. As the flux value increases, additional particles are created and they move faster. As flux goes down, fewer particles are created and they move slower. The result is a particle cloud that changes shape with the seasons as flux values go up and down. || ", "hits": 38 }, { "id": 30688, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30688/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2015-09-25T17:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Black Hole Visits Baltimore", "description": "A visualization of a black hole passing across Baltimore's Inner Harbor || baltimore_lensed-example_frame-1920x1080.png (1920x1080) [2.5 MB] || baltimore_lensed-example_frame-1920x1080.jpg (1920x1080) [509.5 KB] || baltimore_lensed-example_frame-1920x1080_searchweb.png (180x320) [108.6 KB] || baltimore_lensed-example_frame-1920x1080_thm.png (80x40) [6.7 KB] || baltimore_lensed-b-1920x1080.m4v (1920x1080) [23.3 MB] || baltimore_lensed-b-1920x1080.wmv (1920x1080) [24.0 MB] || baltimore_lensed-b-1280x720.m4v (1280x720) [14.2 MB] || baltimore_lensed-b-1920x1080.webm (1920x1080) [23.3 MB] || baltimore_lensed-b-1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [14.7 MB] || baltimore_lensed-b-30688.key [28.4 MB] || baltimore_lensed-b-30688.pptx [25.8 MB] || baltimore_lensed-b-1920x1080p30.mov (1920x1080) [295.7 MB] || a-black-hole-visits-baltimore.hwshow [228 bytes] || ", "hits": 53 }, { "id": 4276, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4276/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-02-26T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "GPM Sees Baltimore/Washington Corridor Snow Storm (Feb. 21, 2015)", "description": "Animation showing a snow storm over the Baltimore/Washington area on Saturday, Feb. 21st, 2015 at 10:05 am. The heavy snow event left upwards of 9 inches of snow in some areas. || satsnow1080p.0350_print.jpg (1024x576) [135.8 KB] || satsnow1080p.0350_searchweb.png (320x180) [95.9 KB] || satsnow1080p.0350_thm.png (80x40) [6.9 KB] || satsnow1080p.webm (1920x1080) [4.3 MB] || satsnow1080p.mp4 (1920x1080) [20.4 MB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [128.0 KB] || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 11574, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11574/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-06-26T06:00:00-04:00", "title": "Nitrogen Dioxide Reduction Across the Northeast Corridor", "description": "Anyone living in the U.S. for the past decade may have noticed a change in the air. The change is apparent in NASA satellite images that demonstrate the country's reduction of air pollution, or more specifically, nitrogen dioxide.Nitrogen dioxide can impact the respiratory system, and it also contributes to the formation of other pollutants including ground-level ozone and particulates. The gas is produced primarily during the combustion of gasoline in vehicle engines and coal in power plants. Air pollution has decreased even though population and the number of cars on the roads have increased. The shift is the result of regulations, technology improvements and economic changes, scientists say.This visualization shows tropospheric column concentrations of nitrogen dioxide as detected by the Ozone Monitoring Instrument on NASA's Aura satellite, averaged yearly from 2005-2011. Blue and green denote lower concentrations and orange and red areas denote higher concentrations, ranging from 1e+15 to 5e+15 molecules per square centimeter, respectively. Pollution builds up along the U.S. East Coast as it passes from one city to the next, particularly in the Northeast Corridor. These cities include Richmond, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, Boston and all the smaller cities in between. Some of the largest absolute changes in nitrogen dioxide have occurred in this corridor. || ", "hits": 16 }, { "id": 11050, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11050/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-07-18T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat 40th Liveshot City Images", "description": "The following are U.S. cities imaged by Landsat over its 40 year span. Multiple years of selected cities are grouped together with specific years in parentheses. || Atlanta, Georgia || Atlanta_crop_321_1920x1080.jpg (1920x1080) [3.8 MB] || Atlanta_crop_321_1920x1080_web.png (320x180) [347.9 KB] || landsat_us_city_image.hwshow [65 bytes] || ", "hits": 53 }, { "id": 11028, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11028/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-06-28T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "Rebuilding Poplar Island", "description": "Poplar Island is being rebuilt by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers using dredged mud from the Baltimore Harbor which lies about 30 miles (about 48 kilometers) north of the island. Reconstruction of the island began in 1998 with the erection of dikes to contain the mud.The growing island is a wildlife sanctuary, a hatchery for hundreds of diamondback terrapins and home to about 170 different species of birds including terns and bald eagles. NASA and the U.S. Department of the Interior through the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) jointly manage Landsat. The USGS preserves the archive of Landsat images and distributes all of the 40-years of Landsat data free over the Internet. || ", "hits": 31 }, { "id": 3845, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3845/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-06-29T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Discover-AQ: Targeted Airborne and Ground-Based Observations of Near-Surface Pollution", "description": "The project is called DISCOVER-AQ, which stands for Deriving Information on Surface conditions from Column and Vertically Resolved Observations Relevant to Air Quality. Discover - AQ is a four-year campaign to improve the use of satellites to monitor air quality for public health and environmental benefit. The fundamental challenge for satellites measuring air quality is to distinguish between pollution near the surface and pollution higher in the atmosphere. Scientific questions remain about the vertical distribution of pollutants. How far up in the atmosphere are morning and evening spikes in pollution associated with rush hour noticeable? How does ozone, which peaks near the surface in afternoon, behave at other altitudes throughout the day? When is the best time of the day for satellites to measure various pollutants?Measurements from aircraft, in combination with ground-based measurements, offer a key perspective that makes such distinctions easier to make. The problem is particularly pronounced for pollutants that are abundant at the surface and higher in the atmosphere. For example, a \"Code Red\" air-quality day during the summer might produce very high concentrations of ozone in the bottom few kilometers of the atmosphere, yet generate a change of a mere 1 or 2 percent to a total column of ozone. Studies suggest that discrepancies of as much as 30 to 50 percent exist between estimates of ground nitrogen dioxide inferred from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument(OMI), an instrument on NASA's Aura satellite launched in 2004, and measurements from ground-based instruments. DISCOVER-AQ will address such problems by helping researchers develop a three-dimensional view of how air pollutants are distributed and move between different levels of the atmosphere throughout the day.A phalanx of ground-based instruments will offer a critical view of the same patches of air the aircraft are monitoring from above. While NASA sponsors certain ground instruments, other institutions including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Maryland Department of the Environment, Howard University, and Pennsylvania State University manage the instruments at the ground stations.Scientists will use information collected during the DISCOVER-AQ campaign to improve measurements from existing satellites and to help establish parameters for future NASA satellite missions that will monitor air quality. More information is available at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/discover-aq/index.html. || ", "hits": 13 }, { "id": 10800, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10800/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-06-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Discover-AQ", "description": "NASA's launching a new mission this summer designed to better understand air pollution and gather data that could allow pollutants to be monitored more exactly from space. The field study coined, \"Discover-AQ\", will take place over the Baltimore/DC region on select days in July. || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 10612, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10612/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-05-12T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Smog Bloggers", "description": "Has pollen got you sneezing? Wondering what's causing that mysterious afternoon haze? How do you find out what's in the air you are breathing? For the thousands of people who visit the University of Maryland Baltimore County's \"Smog Blog\" each day, the answer is just a web click away. The Smog Bloggers combine laser measurements of current air quality with NASA satellite data to paint a daily picture of air pollution across the US. To date, the blog has received over two million hits, and is itself a big hit with weather forecasters, astronomers, asthma sufferers, and those with just a healthy curiosity about what kinds of pollution they may be breathing in. For complete transcript, click here. || G2010-057_Smog_Bloggers_YouTubeHQ.01477_print.jpg (1024x576) [98.1 KB] || G2010-057_Smog_Bloggers_YouTubeHQ_web.png (320x180) [262.6 KB] || G2010-057_Smog_Bloggers_YouTubeHQ_thm.png (80x40) [17.4 KB] || G2010-057_Smog_Bloggers_appletv.webmhd.webm (960x540) [53.5 MB] || G2010-057_Smog_Bloggers_appletv.m4v (960x720) [146.6 MB] || G2010-057_Smog_Bloggers_Youtube.mov (1280x720) [58.9 MB] || G2010-057_Smog_Bloggers_YouTubeHQ.mov (1280x720) [113.1 MB] || G2010-057_Smog_Bloggers_iPod_large.m4v (640x360) [45.3 MB] || G2010-057_Smog_Bloggers_iPod_small.m4v (320x180) [17.5 MB] || G2010-057_Smog_Bloggers_NASA_PORTAL.wmv (346x260) [46.4 MB] || G2010-057_Smog_Bloggers_SVS.mpg (512x288) [36.2 MB] || ", "hits": 29 }, { "id": 3588, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3588/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-03-26T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica Graphic", "description": "This large resolution graphic was created to display a 10 foot by 7 foot exhibition for the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) project at the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) in Baltimore, Maryland on April 16-17, 2009. This meeting marks the 50th Anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty. After this meeting, the printed image will be displayed in building 33 of Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) is a data product funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and jointly produced by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The LIMA data shown here uses the pan-chromatic band and has a resolution of 15 meters per pixel. The LandSat satellite does not fly over the South Pole so the hole has been filled with data from NASA's MODIS Mosaic of Antarctica (MOA). || ", "hits": 171 }, { "id": 3492, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3492/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-03-09T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Atlantic Transport of Anthropogenic Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) in 2003", "description": "In a new NASA study, researchers taking advantage of improvements in satellite sensor capabilities offer the first measurement-based estimate of the amount of pollution. The new measurements from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite substantiate the results of previous model-based studies, and are the most extensive to date. Hongbin Yu, an associate research scientist of the University of Maryland Baltimore County working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., grew up in China and taught there as a university professor, , where he witnessed first-hand and studied how pollution from nearby power plants affected the local environment. Yu points out, however, that the matter of pollution transport is a global one. \"Our study focused on East Asian pollution transport, but pollution also flows from Europe, North America, the broader Asian region and elsewhere, across bodies of water and land, to neighboring areas and beyond,\" he said. \"So we should not simply blame East Asia for this amount of pollution flowing into North America.\" In fact, a recent model study conducted by Mian Chin, co-author of this study and an atmospheric scientist at NASA Goddard suggests that European pollution also makes significant contribution to the pollution inflow to North America. \"Satellite instruments give us the ability to capture finer measurements, on a nearly daily basis across a broader geographic region and across a longer time frame so that the overall result is a better estimate than any other measurement method we've had in the past,\" said study co-author Lorraine Remer, a physical scientist and member of the MODIS science team at NASA Goddard. The MODIS instrument can distinguish between broad categories of particles in the air, and observes Earth's entire surface every one to two days, enabling it to monitor movement of the East Asian pollution aerosols as they rise into the lower troposphere, the area of the atmosphere where we live and breathe, and make their way across the Pacific and up into the middle and upper regions of the troposphere. Remer added that the research team also found that pollution movements fluctuate during the year, with the East Asian airstream carrying its largest \"load\" in spring and smallest in summer. The most extensive East Asian export of pollution across the Pacific took place in 2003, triggered by record-breaking wildfires across vast forests of East Asia and Russia. Notably, the pollution aerosols also travel across the ocean quickly, journeying into the atmosphere above North American in as little as one week. \"We cannot determine at what level of elevation in the atmosphere the pollution ends up once it crosses over to North America, so we do not have a way in this study to assess what actual impact it has on air quality here,\" said Remer. \"Nevertheless, we realize there is indeed impact. For example, particles like these have been linked to regional weather and climate effects. Since pollution transport is such a broad global issue, it is important moving forward to extend this kind of study to other regions, to see how much pollution is migrating from its source regions to others, when, and how fast,\" said Remer. || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 10388, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10388/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Human Induced versus Naturally Occurring Aerosols", "description": "One critical new area of aerosol research involves how the varied particles impact clouds. Clouds play an important role in regulating Earth's climate, and without aerosols, clouds could not exist. The introduction of a larger number of aerosols will modify cloud's natural properties, leading to clouds that are bigger, brighter, and longer lasting. Two time lapsed scenes with zooms to particle-level conceptual animations help to illustrate this concept. In a pristine environment, like the ocean scene depicted here, naturally occurring salt particles serve as condensation nuclei for water vapor in the atmosphere. The water molecules are drawn to the salt particles like magnets, forming water droplets and eventually creating a cloud. The city scene reveals how an increase in the number of aerosols modifies the properties of a naturally formed cloud. The large influx of soot particles increases the number of centers of attraction for the water molecules, and the water droplets become smaller in size but greater in number. || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 10390, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10390/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Sea Salt Aerosols", "description": "Aerosols are complex particles; they can occur in nature but can also be generated by humans. One source of naturally-occurring aerosols is the ocean-wave activity which propels salt particles into the air. These particles then serve as cloud condensation nuclei and lead to cloud formation. Sea salt still image courtesy of Chere Petty, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; NSF grant DBI-0722569 || ", "hits": 69 }, { "id": 10391, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10391/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Potassium Aerosols", "description": "Potassium is an alkali metal that occurs naturally bound to other elements in seawater and minerals. Mineral aerosols, such as Saharan dust and sea salt, can be the source of water-soluble potassium. Video courtesy of Chere Petty, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; NSF grant DBI-0722569. || ", "hits": 25 }, { "id": 10393, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10393/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Soot and Sulfate Still Images and Video of Tractor Soot Particle", "description": "Aerosols are complex particles; they can occur in nature but can also be generated by humans. Black carbon, or soot, is generated from industrial pollution, traffic, outdoor fires, and household burning of coal and biomass fuels. Soot is a product of incomplete combustion, especially of coal, diesel fuels, biofuels and outdoor biomass burning. When soot absorbs sunlight, it heats the surrounding air and reduces the amount of sunlight reaching the ground. The heated air makes the atmosphere less stable, creating rising air (convection) which forms clouds and brings rainfall to regions that are heavily polluted. Still image courtesy of Peter Buseck, Arizona State University. Video courtesy of Chere Petty, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; NSF grant DBI-0722569. || ", "hits": 32 }, { "id": 3446, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3446/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-04-21T08:00:00-04:00", "title": "Chesapeake Bay Flyover", "description": "The Chesapeake Bay, an area of approximately 200 miles, is North America's largest estuary. The Bay and its tributaries comprises a complex ecosystem which encompasses rivers, wetlands, trees and habitats. This animation takes us on a tour around the Bay starting from its 'mouth' near Norfolk, Virginia, flying north up to the Susquehanna River and then flying down the area of the Eastern Shore all the way to the Fishermans Island, zooming out to get a look of the Chesapeake bay region. The imagery utilized for this animation is a false-color Chesapeake Bay Landsat-7 Mosaic (#3473) composed of eight scenes acquired between 1999-2002, which were put together and color corrected to resemble natural looking colors.The mosaic was created by EarthSat under contract with NASA as part of the GeoCover 2000 product. All images used in GeoCover were acquired by Landsat 7 during the period of 1999-2002. The pixel size of the full resolution image represents 14.25 m on the ground. The Chesapeake Bay mosaic uses portions of eight Landsat-7 scenes. Below you will find a listing of the eight Landsat 7 images that were put together to create the composite image. Landsat scenes are organized by a Path and Row number according to the Worldwide Reference System. (To learn more about Landsat's Worldwide Reference System, please visit: http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/wrs.html)Scenes used in the Chesapeake Bay mosaic:Landsat 7 WRS Path 15-Row 32 acquired on Oct. 05, 2001 Landsat 7 WRS Path 14-Row 32 acquired on Sept. 23, 1999 Landsat 7 WRS Path 15-Row 33 acquired on October 05, 2001 Landsat 7 WRS Path 14-Row 33 acquired on July 10, 2001 Landsat 7 WRS Path 15-Row 34 acquired on Sept. 30, 1999 Landsat 7 WRS Path 14-Row 34 acquired on July 10, 2001 Landsat 7 WRS Path 15-Row 35 acquired on Sept. 30, 1999 Landsat 7 WRS Path 14-Row 35 acquired on Sept. 23, 1999 || ", "hits": 53 }, { "id": 3440, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3440/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2007-12-30T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Aqua/AIRS Global Carbon Dioxide", "description": "Although originally designed to measure atmospheric water vapor and temperature profiles for weather forecasting, data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft are now also being used by scientists to observe atmospheric carbon dioxide. Scientists from NASA; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts; the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, Calif., are using several different methods to measure the concentration of carbon dioxide in the mid-troposphere (about eight kilometers, or five miles, above the surface). This visualization shows Aqua/AIRS mid-tropospheric carbon dioxide from July 2003. Low concentrations, 360 ppm, are shown in blue and high concentrations, 385 ppm, are shown in red. Notice that despite carbon dioxide's high degree of mixing, the regional patterns of atmospheric sources and sinks are still apparent in mid-troposphere carbon dioxide concentrations. This pattern of high carbon dioxide in the Northern Hemisphere (North America, Atlantic Ocean, and Central Asia) is consistent with model predictions.For more information on AIRS, visit the AIRS Project Web Site: http://airs.jpl.nasa.gov. The AIRS data products are available at http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/AIRS/index.shtml. || ", "hits": 26 }, { "id": 3441, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3441/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2007-12-30T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Aqua/AIRS Carbon Dioxide with Winds", "description": "Although originally designed to measure atmospheric water vapor and temperature profiles for weather forecasting, data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft are now also being used by scientists to observe atmospheric carbon dioxide. Scientists from NASA; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts; the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, Calif., are using several different methods to measure the concentration of carbon dioxide in the mid-troposphere (about eight kilometers, or five miles, above the surface). This visualization shows Aqua/AIRS mid-tropospheric carbon dioxide from July 2003. Low concentrations, 360 ppm, are shown in blue and high concentrations, 385 ppm, are shown in red. Notice that despite carbon dioxide's high degree of mixing, the regional patterns of atmospheric sources and sinks are still apparent in mid-troposphere carbon dioxide concentrations. This pattern of high carbon dioxide in the Northern Hemisphere (North America, Atlantic Ocean, and Central Asia) is consistent with model predictions.For more information on AIRS, visit the AIRS Project Web Site: http://airs.jpl.nasa.gov. The AIRS data products are available at http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/AIRS/index.shtml. || ", "hits": 14 }, { "id": 3220, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3220/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-08-31T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Behold, A Whirlwind Came: The Science of Tracking Hurricanes", "description": "This documentary-style video shows how NASA computer modeling research is contributing to an improved understanding and forecasts of hurricanes. It weaves interviews of three Goddard Space Flight Center scientists with scientific visualizations and live-action footage of hurricanes and the scientists studying them. The video focuses on application of the NASA finite-volume General Circulation Model (fvGCM) to the 2004 Atlantic Ocean hurricane season. Over the last 20 years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Hurricane Center and National Weather Service have produced enormous improvements in hurricane forecasting. However, by running at ~25-kilometer resolution (twice that of current operational forecasts), the NASA fvGCM has shown in some cases an accuracy of landfall prediction on the order of 100 kilometers up to 5 days in advance. Initial evaluation suggests that the potential exists for dramatic improvements in warning time and intensity forecasts for tropical cyclones around the globe. NASA has begun collaborating with the National Weather Service and other agencies worldwide to improve forecasts so that, among other advantages, local authorities can narrow areas for evacuation. The video was produced for the TerraLink exhibit at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore.Winner of the 2005 Video Competition Crystal Award of Excellence. || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 3152, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3152/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-05-27T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Urban Signatures: Temperature (WMS)", "description": "Big cities influence the environment around them. For example, urban areas are typically warmer than their surroundings. Cities are strikingly visible in computer models that simulate the Earth's land surface. This visualization shows average surface temperature predicted by the Land Information System (LIS) for a day in June 2001. Only part of the global computation is shown, focusing on the highly urbanized northeast corridor in the United States, including the cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington. || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 3154, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3154/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-05-27T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Urban Signatures: Evaporation (WMS)", "description": "Big cities influence the environment around them. For example, urban areas are typically warmer than their surroundings. Cities are strikingly visible in computer models that simulate the Earth's land surface. This visualization shows evaporation rates predicted by the Land Information System (LIS) for a day in June 2001. Evaporation is lower in the cities because water tends to run off pavement and into drains, rather than being absorbed by soil and plants from which it later evaporates. Only part of the global computation is shown, focusing on the highly urbanized northeast corridor in the United States, including the cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington. || ", "hits": 41 }, { "id": 3155, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3155/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-05-27T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Urban Signatures: Thermal Radiation (WMS)", "description": "Big cities influence the environment around them. For example, urban areas are typically warmer than their surroundings. Cities are strikingly visible in computer models that simulate the Earth's land surface. This visualization shows outgoing thermal radiation predicted by the Land Information System (LIS) for a day in June 2001. Cities are warmer, so they emit more longwave (infrared) radiation. Only part of the global computation is shown, focusing on the highly urbanized northeast corridor in the United States, including the cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington. || ", "hits": 20 }, { "id": 3156, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3156/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-05-27T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Urban Signatures: Latent Heat Flux (WMS)", "description": "Big cities influence the environment around them. For example, urban areas are typically warmer than their surroundings. Cities are strikingly visible in computer models that simulate the Earth's land surface. This visualization shows latent heat flux predicted by the Land Information System (LIS) for a day in June 2001. (Latent heat flux refers to the transfer of energy from the Earth's surface to the air above by evaporation of water on the surface; for a more detailed explanation see http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/geog101/textbook/energy/energy_balance.html). Latent heat flux is lower in the cities because there is less evaporation there. Only part of the global computation is shown, focusing on the highly urbanized northeast corridor in the United States, including the cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington. || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 3157, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3157/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-05-27T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Urban Signatures: Sensible Heat Flux (WMS)", "description": "Big cities influence the environment around them. For example, urban areas are typically warmer than their surroundings. Cities are strikingly visible in computer models that simulate the Earth's land surface. This visualization shows sensible heat flux predicted by the Land Information System (LIS) for a day in June 2001. (Sensible heat flux refers to transfer of heat from the earth's surface to the air above; for further explanation see http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/geog101/textbook/energy/energy_balance.html). Sensible heat flux is higher in the cities—that is, they transfer more heat to the atmosphere—because the surface there is warmer than in the surroundings. Only part of the global computation is shown, focusing on the highly urbanized northeast corridor in the United States, including the cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington. || ", "hits": 83 }, { "id": 3031, "url": "http://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). 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": 27 }, { "id": 2933, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2933/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-10-01T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Mission Proposal: Polar GOES-like spacecraft (beauty shot)", "description": "This visualization was created to support a mission proposal led by Lars Peter Riishojgaard. This mission would fly a GOES-like spacecraft in a polar elliptical orbit around the Earth providing a large percentage of observing time for northern polar regions. This version of the visualization is a beauty shot first showing the orbit from afar, then moving into the orbital plane and riding the orbit as the spacecraft would. || ", "hits": 26 }, { "id": 2934, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2934/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-10-01T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Mission Proposal: Polar GOES-like Spacecraft (Riding the Spacecraft - Animated Clouds)", "description": "This visualization was created to support a mission proposal led by Lars Peter Riishojgaard. This mission would fly a GOES-like spacecraft in a polar elliptical orbit around the Earth providing a large percentage of observing time for northern polar regions. This version of the visualization has the camera riding the orbit as the spacecraft would with GOES clouds animating on the Earth. The clouds are constantly lit so as to provide an infra-red (IR) type of view. || ", "hits": 24 }, { "id": 2935, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2935/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-10-01T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Mission Proposal: Polar GOES-like Spacecraft (Riding the Spacecraft - Animated Swaths)", "description": "This visualization was created to support a mission proposal led by Lars Peter Riishojgaard. This mission would fly a GOES-like spacecraft in a polar elliptical orbit around the Earth providing a large percentage of observing time for northern polar regions. This version of the visualization has the camera riding the orbit as the spacecraft would with a MODIS swath and GOES footprint animating. The MODIS swath is colored red, and the GOES footprint is colored light gray. This shows how this proposal would provide more continuous coverage of north polar regions than MODIS and GOES can provide. || ", "hits": 21 }, { "id": 2943, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2943/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-05-17T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Canadian Smoke Invades the East Coast", "description": "Smoke from multiple large wildfires in Canada blanketed the Great Lakes and eastern United States. The enormous smoke plume was almost 200 miles wide. The thick pall affected air quality from New York, to Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. and blocked the sunlight cooling the East Coast. The first image was taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite on July 7, 2002. The second image comes from NASA's Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) on the Earth Probe Satellite. || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 2948, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2948/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-05-17T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Simulated Aura/OMI Data Collection", "description": "On June 19, 2004, NASA launches Aura, a next generation Earth-observing satellite. One of several instruments on the Aura satellite is the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI). OMI is a contribution of the Netherland's Agency for Aerospace Programs (NIVR) along with the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI). OMI will continue the TOMS record for total ozone and other atmospheric parameters related to ozone chemistry and climate. (For more information on the Aura project, please visit http://aura.gsfc.nasa.gov/)Note: The size of the satellite model in the following animation and stills has been exaggerated for aesthetic purposes. || ", "hits": 44 }, { "id": 2666, "url": "http://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. 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. || ", "hits": 15 }, { "id": 2667, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2667/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-01-14T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Great Zoom Mosaic - Zoom Out", "description": "This is a mosaic of zooms out of 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.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. || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 2503, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2503/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-11-16T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "SC2002 Intro", "description": "Introductory animation for the SuperComputing (SC) 2002 Conference Video. SC2002 will be held in Baltimore, MD from Nov. 16-22. The title of the conference is 'From Terabytes to Insights'. This conceptual animation shows the SeaStar satellite collecting data and transmitting its data down to a ground station somewhere on the east coast. The network of lines seen on the United States outlines the Abilene network backbone, symbolizing the massive amount of data sharing attributed by just one satellite. || ", "hits": 10 }, { "id": 2504, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2504/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-11-16T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "SC2002 Title", "description": "Title sequence for the SuperComputing (SC) 2002 Conference Video. SC2002 will be held in Baltimore, MD Nov. 16-22. The motto for this year's conference is 'From Terabytes to Insights', as this title sequence reflects. || ", "hits": 14 }, { "id": 2641, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2641/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-11-15T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "The SC2002 Conference Opening Video", "description": "This video introduced the latest in high-performance computing and communications and the best of host city Baltimore to keynote address attendees at the SuperComputing 2002 (SC2002) conference on Tuesday, November 19, 2002. || a002641.00010_print.png (720x480) [597.0 KB] || a002641_pre.jpg (320x262) [15.2 KB] || SVS2002-0034_The_SC2002_Conference_Opening_Video.webmhd.webm (960x540) [106.4 MB] || SVS2002-0034_The_SC2002_Conference_Opening_Video.mov (720x480) [1.6 GB] || a002641.dv (720x480) [1.4 GB] || a002641.mp4 (640x480) [82.9 MB] || a002641.mpg (320x240) [72.2 MB] || ", "hits": 17 }, { "id": 2548, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2548/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-09-18T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Great Zoom out of Baltimore, MD: 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 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 the SuperComputing 2002 video. || ", "hits": 13 }, { "id": 2549, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2549/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-09-18T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Great Zoom into Baltimore, MD: 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 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 the Supercomputing 2002 video. || ", "hits": 9 }, { "id": 2634, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2634/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-08-20T12:30:00-04:00", "title": "Impervious Data of the Washington, DC and Baltimore, Maryland Area", "description": "Here we see an image of the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore area taken with the Landsat satellite on March 27, 1998. For over 26 years, Landsat images have been used to help urban planners understand where growth is taking place and help geographers evaluate how different urban planning programs effect population growth and land use. || ", "hits": 14 }, { "id": 2636, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2636/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-08-20T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Impervious Data of the Washington, DC Area", "description": "Here we see an image of the Washington, D.C. area taken with the Landsat satellite. The dates of the images are from 1986, 1990, 1996, and 2000. For over 26 years, Landsat images have been used to help urban planners understand where growth is taking place and help geographers evaluate how different urban planning programs effect population growth and land use. || ", "hits": 21 }, { "id": 2637, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2637/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-08-20T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Impervious Data of the Baltimore Area", "description": "Here we see an image of the Baltimore Maryland area taken with the Landsat satellite. Dates ranging from 1986, 1990, 1996, 2000. For over 26 years, Landsat images have been used to help urban planners understand where growth is taking place and help geographers evaluate how different urban planning programs effect population growth and land use. || ", "hits": 27 }, { "id": 2472, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2472/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-06-26T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Baltimore Asthma Study", "description": "Baltimore, Maryland has one of the highest occurrences of asthma in the country. This study is an attempt to find a geographic correlation with the high asthma findings. The results are derived from hospital admission data throughout all of Maryland. The zipcodes of each patient's home are normalized against each zipcode's population, and mapped per month. Thereby zipcode regions with high incidents of asthma cases are highlighted with bright yellow, where areas with lesser cases have little to no yellow tint. || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 2423, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2423/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-04-12T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Great Zoom out of Baltimore, MD: Maryland Science Center (for the Volvo Ocean Race presentation)", "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 also incorporates a fly through the clouds revealing the Terra/MODIS 'wonderglobe' with clouds. || ", "hits": 18 }, { "id": 2249, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2249/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-09-06T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Great Zoom into Baltimore, MD: The Inner Harbor", "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. || ", "hits": 4 }, { "id": 2250, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2250/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-09-06T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Great Zoom out of Baltimore, MD: The Inner Harbor", "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. || ", "hits": 20 }, { "id": 2253, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2253/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-09-06T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Great Zoom into Greenbelt, MD: NASA Goddard Space Flight 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 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": 15 }, { "id": 2254, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2254/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-09-06T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Great Zoom out of Greenbelt, MD: NASA Goddard Space Flight 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 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": 16 }, { "id": 2176, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2176/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-06-12T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Impervious Surface Cover: Paved Areas in DC and Baltimore", "description": "A special algorithm has been applied to the Landsat 7 image to illuminate the changes in low-density residential land use which exemplify sprawl.There is a link between impervious surfaces within a watershed, (here we see a subset of the Chesapeake Bay watershed area) and the water quality within the watershed. In general, once 10-15 % of an area is covered by impervious surfaces, increased sediments and chemical pollutants in runoff have a measurable effect on water quality. When 15-25% of a watershed is paved or impervious to drainage, increased runoff leads to reduced oxygen levels and impaired stream life. When more then 25% of surfaces are paved, many types of stream life die from the concentrated runoff and sediments. || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 2177, "url": "http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2177/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-06-12T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Impervious Surface Cover: Non-Paved Areas", "description": "A special algorithm has been applied to the Landsat 7 image to illuminate the changes in low-density residential land use which exemplify sprawl.There is a link between impervious surfaces within a watershed, (here we see a subset of the Chesapeake Bay watershed area) and the water quality within the watershed. In general, once 10-15 % of an area is covered by impervious surfaces, increased sediments and chemical pollutants in runoff have a measurable effect on water quality. When 15-25% of a watershed is paved or impervious to drainage, increased runoff leads to reduced oxygen levels and impaired stream life. When more then 25% of surfaces are paved, many types of stream life die from the concentrated runoff and sediments. || ", "hits": 16 } ] }