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The Earth Information Center (EIC) allows visitors to see how our planet is changing in nine key areas: sea level change, air quality, biodiversity, wildfires, greenhouse gases, energy, disasters, water resources, and agriculture. This information supports decision makers in developing the tools they need to mitigate, adapt, and respond to our changing planet.\n\nDrawing from insight provided by NASA centers from coast to coast, and in close coordination with other government agencies, industry partners and communities, the Earth Information Center delivers critical data directly into the hands of people in ways that they can immediately use. \n\nThrough the Earth Information Center discover how NASA sees the unseen and consider why this information matters to us all.\n\nThis gallery consists of content used in the hyperwall display in the Earth Information Center at NASA Headquarters.", "hits": 362 }, { "id": 40481, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/beauty-pieces/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2023-06-07T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Beauty Pieces", "description": "TBD", "hits": 5 }, { "id": 40462, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/cosmic-cycles3-earthas-art/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2023-05-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Cosmic Cycles 3 Earth as Art", "description": "Starting in 1972, nine Landsat satellites have orbited Earth, taking images of the surface. This unprecedented coverage has been tremendously useful to the scientific community, but it has also produced thousands of beautiful high-resolution images of the complex patterns of our world. 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Understanding small-scale ocean dynamics will help scientists better understand how Earth’s oceans slow the impact of global warming and impact the Earth climate system. || ", "hits": 49 }, { "id": 13515, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13515/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-01-07T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Five Newest Earth Expeditions Ready for Takeoff", "description": "NASA is sending five airborne campaigns across the United States in 2020 to investigate fundamental processes that ultimately impact human lives and the environment, from snowstorms along the East Coast to ocean eddies off the coast of San Francisco. || ", "hits": 59 }, { "id": 31036, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31036/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2019-04-30T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Jupiter or Earth?", "description": "Side by side images show similar features despite being from different planets. || jupiter_earth_with_scalebar_print.jpg (1024x576) [100.2 KB] || jupiter_earth_with_scalebar.png (3840x2160) [5.6 MB] || jupiter_earth_with_scalebar_searchweb.png (320x180) [93.5 KB] || jupiter_earth_with_scalebar_thm.png (80x40) [6.7 KB] || jupiter_earth_with_scalebar.hwshow [216 bytes] || ", "hits": 114 }, { "id": 40365, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/earth-science-oct2018-briefing/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2018-10-18T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth Science Overview Oct 2018 Briefing", "description": "No description available.", "hits": 99 }, { "id": 12477, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12477/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-05-15T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Marine Magnetism", "description": "A new method uses Earth's magnetic field to detect changes in the heat stored in the ocean. || TidalMagFL_frames_30fps.0272.png (1920x1080) [4.1 MB] || TidalMagFL_frames_30fps.0272_1024x576.jpg (1024x576) [183.8 KB] || TidalMagFL_frames_30fps.0272_1280x720.jpg (1280x720) [291.4 KB] || TidalMagFL_frames_30fps.0272_1024x576_print.jpg (1024x576) [183.2 KB] || TidalMagFL_frames_30fps.0272_thm.png (80x40) [5.8 KB] || TidalMagFL_frames_30fps.0272_1024x576_searchweb.png (320x180) [103.7 KB] || ", "hits": 60 }, { "id": 4541, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4541/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2016-12-30T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Ocean Tides and Magnetic Fields", "description": "Earth’s magnetic field is built up from many contributing sources ranging from the planet’s core to the magnetosphere in space. Untangling and identifying the different sources allows geomagnetic scientists to gather information about the individual processes that combine to create the full field.One contributor is the ocean. But how do the tides affect Earth’s magnetic field? Seawater is an electrical conductor, and therefore interacts with the magnetic field. As the tides cycle around the ocean basins, the ocean water essentially tries to pull the geomagnetic field lines along. Because the salty water is a good, but not great, conductor, the interaction is relatively weak. The strongest component is from the regular lunar tide that happens about twice per day (actually 12.42 hours). Other contributions come from ocean swell, eddies, and even tsunamis.The strength of the interaction also depends on the temperature of the ocean water. Scientists are now able to determine how much heat is being stored in the entire ocean, from wave top to sea floor by observations of the Earth's magnetic field. || ", "hits": 197 }, { "id": 12456, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12456/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-12-12T18:45:00-05:00", "title": "Tracking Ocean Heat With Magnetic Fields", "description": "As Earth warms, much of the extra heat is stored in the planet’s ocean – but monitoring the magnitude of that heat content is a difficult task. A surprising feature of the tides could help, however. 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As the tides cycle around the ocean basins, the ocean water essentially tries to pull the geomagnetic field lines along.Because the salty water is a good, but not great, conductor, the interaction is relatively weak. 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In this visualization, sea surface height anomalies derived from satellite altimeter data show differences above and below normally observed sea surface heights from 1992 to 2011. Blue shades indicate areas where sea surface height is lower than normal, while red shades indicate areas where sea surface height is higher than normal. Swirling currents called eddies pepper the scene and can be found in every major ocean basin. Near the Equator, ocean eddies give way to fast moving features called Kelvin waves. When they build up in the Pacific, these waves can usher in a phenomenon known as El Niño, which happens when warm water and high sea levels move into the Eastern Pacific along the Equator. Occurring roughly every 3-4 years, El Niño events can have a big impact on weather across the globe, bringing extra rainfall to the American Southwest and even affecting hurricanes in the Atlantic Oceans. Sea surface height data also have many other applications, such as in fisheries management, navigation, and offshore operations. || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 30486, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30486/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2014-02-28T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Sea Surface Temperature in the Eastern Pacific", "description": "This animation from Jan 2011 to Dec 2013 shows high resolution sea surface temperature (SST) in the Eastern Pacific off Central America. Clearly visible off the Central American Coast are the cooling events associated with the winds that blow through the mountain gaps in Central America. The cooling events can form cold eddies and domes, such as off the coast of Costa Rica. The MUR SST dataset combines data from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), and Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSR-E) instruments, and currently the NAVY Windsat Satellite. More details of the MUR data set may be found at PO.DAAC. || ", "hits": 56 }, { "id": 30487, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30487/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2014-02-28T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Sea Surface Temperature and the Agulhas Current", "description": "This animation from Jan 2011 to Dec 2013 shows high resolution sea surface temperature (SST) in the Agulhas Retroflection off South Africa. Clearly visible in the Agulhas animation are the eddies that form as a result of the retroflection of the current. These eddies can shed or spin off the main current and travel into the South Atlantic. The MUR SST dataset combines data from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), and Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSR-E) instruments, and currently the NAVY Windsat Satellite. More details of the MUR data set may be found at PO.DAAC || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 30287, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30287/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-10-21T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Sediment in the Gulf of Mexico", "description": "Clouds of sediment colored the Gulf of Mexico on November 10, 2009. Much of the color likely comes from resuspended sediment dredged up from the sea floor in shallow waters. The sediment-colored water transitions to clearer dark blue near the edge of the continental shelf, where the water becomes deeper. The ocean turbulence that brought the sediment to the surface is readily evident in the textured waves and eddies within the tan and green waters. Tropical Storm Ida had come ashore over Alabama and Florida, immediately east of the area shown here, a few hours before the image was acquired. The storm’s wind and waves may have churned up waters farther west. A second source of sediment is visible along the shore. Many rivers, including the Mississippi River, drain into the Gulf of Mexico in this region. The river plumes are dark brown that fade to tan and green as the sediment dissipates. || ", "hits": 60 }, { "id": 30294, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30294/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-10-21T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Plankton Bloom South of Africa", "description": "This natural-color image of a deep-ocean eddy was acquired on December 26, 2011. The light blue swirls, caused by plankton, reveal the vortex structure of the eddy. The image is rotated 90 degrees (north is to the left) to show the 150-kilometer wide bloom and eddy in context, about 800 kilometers south of South Africa. This anti-cyclonic (counter-clockwise) eddy likely peeled off from the Agulhas Current, which flows along the southeastern coast of Africa and around the tip of South Africa. Agulhas eddies, or “current rings,” tend to be among the largest in the world, transporting warm, salty water from the Indian Ocean to the South Atlantic. Certain types of eddies can promote blooms of phytoplankton. As these water masses stir the ocean, they draw nutrients up from the deep, fertilizing the surface waters to create blooms of microscopic, plant-like organisms in the open ocean, which is relatively barren compared to coastal waters. || ", "hits": 57 }, { "id": 10953, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10953/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-04-26T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Swirling Seas", "description": "As Earth hurtles around its axis at 1,000 miles per hour, its rotation sets the seas in motion and generates winds that bear down on the ocean surface. The fast-moving currents, swirling eddies and powerful drifts that result appear at first glance as a disorderly jumble of flows. Yet their movements are directed by enormous, rotating currents, called gyres, which slowly circulate water around the planet's major ocean basins. The visualizations below combine NASA satellite data with field measurements to present a modeled view of surface flows and gyres in the Northern Hemisphere from March 2007 to March 2008. Observe the dramatic difference in strength between westward and eastward currents as they hook clockwise in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. And notice how westward currents explode into spiraling, turbulent flows off the eastern coasts of Asia and North America. || ", "hits": 145 }, { "id": 3912, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3912/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-03-16T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Global Sea Surface Currents and Temperature", "description": "This visualization shows sea surface current flows. The flows are colored by corresponding sea surface temperature data. This visualization is rendered for display on very high resolution devices like hyperwalls or for print media.This visualization was produced using model output from the joint MIT/JPL project entitled Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase II (ECCO2). ECCO2 uses the MIT general circulation model (MITgcm) to synthesize satellite and in-situ data of the global ocean and sea-ice at resolutions that begin to resolve ocean eddies and other narrow current systems, which transport heat and carbon in the oceans. The ECCO2 model simulates ocean flows at all depths, but only surface flows are used in this visualization. || ", "hits": 575 }, { "id": 3913, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3913/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-02-15T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Gulf Stream Sea Surface Currents and Temperatures", "description": "This visualization shows the Gulf Stream stretching from the Gulf of Mexico all the way over towards Western Europe. This visualization was designed for a very wide, high resolution display (e.g., a 5x3 hyperwall display).This visualization was produced using model output from the joint MIT/JPL project entitled Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase II (ECCO2). ECCO2 uses the MIT general circulation model (MITgcm) to synthesize satellite and in-situ data of the global ocean and sea-ice at resolutions that begin to resolve ocean eddies and other narrow current systems, which transport heat and carbon in the oceans. The ECCO2 model simulates ocean flows at all depths, but only surface flows are used in this visualization. There are 2 versions provided: one with the flows colored with gray, the other with flows colored using sea surface temperature data. The sea surface temperature data is also from the ECCO2 model. The dark patterns under the ocean represent the undersea bathymetry. Topographic land exaggeration is 20x and bathymetric exaggeration is 40x. || ", "hits": 447 }, { "id": 3827, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3827/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-08-15T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Perpetual Ocean", "description": "This visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through December 2007. The visualization does not include a narration or annotations; the goal was to use ocean flow data to create a simple, visceral experience.This visualization was produced using model output from the joint MIT/JPL project: Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase II or ECCO2. ECCO2 uses the MIT general circulation model (MITgcm) to synthesize satellite and in-situ data of the global ocean and sea-ice at resolutions that begin to resolve ocean eddies and other narrow current systems, which transport heat and carbon in the oceans. ECCO2 provides ocean flows at all depths, but only surface flows are used in this visualization. The dark patterns under the ocean represent the undersea bathymetry. Topographic land exaggeration is 20x and bathymetric exaggeration is 40x. This visualization was shown at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 Computer Animation Festival.Don't miss these related visualizations:Excerpt form Dynamic EarthGulf Stream Sea Surface Currents and TemperaturesOcean Current Flows around the Mediterranean Sea for UNESCOGlobal Sea Surface Currents and TemperatureFlat Map Ocean Current Flows with Sea Surface Temperatures (SST) || ", "hits": 1179 }, { "id": 3820, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3820/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-02-10T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Ocean Current Flows around the Mediterranean Sea for UNESCO", "description": "This visualization shows ocean current flows in the Mediterranean Sea and Eastern Atlantic. The time period for this visualization is 16 February 2005 through 16 January 2006. For each second that passes in the visualization, about 2.75 days pass in the simulation. The colors of the flows represent their depths. The white flows are near the surface while deeper flows are more blue.This visualization was produced using model output from the joint MIT/JPL project: Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase II or ECCO2. ECCO2 uses the MIT general circulation model (MITgcm) to synthesize satellite and in-situ data of the global ocean and sea-ice at resolutions that begin to resolve ocean eddies and other narrow current systems, which transport heat and carbon in the oceans.This visualization was created in support of the 2011 UNESCO conference in Paris, France. || ", "hits": 332 }, { "id": 3821, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3821/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-02-10T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Flat Map Ocean Current Flows with Sea Surface Temperatures (SST)", "description": "This visualization shows ocean current flows on a flat map of the world. This simple flat map (cylindrical equidistant projection) is designed to be easily wrapped to a sphere. The flows are colored by sea surface temperatures with blues being cooler waters and yellows/reds warmer waters. The time period for this visualization is 10 January 2005 through 2006. For each second the passes in the visualization, about 2.5 days pass.This visualization was produced using model output from the joint MIT/JPL project: Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase II or ECCO2.. ECCO2 uses the MIT general circulation model (MITgcm) to synthesize satellite and in-situ data of the global ocean and sea-ice at resolutions that begin to resolve ocean eddies and other narrow current systems, which transport heat and carbon in the oceans.This visualization was created in support of the 2011 UNESCO conference in Paris, France. || ", "hits": 1886 } ] }