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We've tried to cover the subject areas our speakers focus on most. \n\nIf you're not seeing what you're looking for, there is a huge library of visualizations more localized or specialized in subject - please use the Search function above, and filter \"Result type\" for \"Hyperwall Visual.\"\n\n If you'd like to use one of these visualizations in your Hyperwall presentation, we'll need to know which element on which page. On the visualization's web page, below the visual you'd like to use, you'll see a Link icon next to the Download button. All we need is for you to click on that icon and include that link in your presentation Powerpoint/Keynote or visualization list. 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While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, some individual imagery provided by ASF is obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. 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During SM4, two new scientific instruments were installed – the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). Two failed instruments, the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), were brought back to life by the first ever on-orbit repairs. With these efforts, Hubble has been brought to the apex of its scientific capabilities.For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. Music Credits: \"Aquarius\" by Fred Dubois [SACEM] via Koka Media [SACEM], Universal Publishing Production Music France [SACEM], and Universal Production Music.“Adam and Eve” by Laurent Dury [SACEM] via Koka Media [SACEM], Universal Publishing Production Music France [SACEM], and Universal Production Music.\"Inquiring Mind\" by Leon Mitchener [NS] via Atmosphere Music Ltd. [PRS], and Universal Production Music.\"Weight of Water\" by Anthony Edwin Phillips [PRS] via Atmosphere Music Ltd. 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Paula Cain is one of the talented thermal blanket technicians who uses her skillful hands to correctly cover all sorts of spacefaring instruments.Over a decade ago, when she was new to the job, she had a special project related to the Hubble Space Telescope and its fifth and final servicing mission.For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble.Music Credits:“Alien Species” by Théo Boulenger [ SACEM ]. Koka Media [ SACEM ] , Universal Publishing Production Music France [ SACEM ], and Universal Production Music“Cascades” by Air Jared [ ASCAP ], Sebastian Barnaby Robertson [ BMI ]. Killer Tracks [ BMI ] , Open Note [ ASCAP ], and Universal Production Music“Wild Journey” by Gilbert Artman [ SACEM ]. Koka Media [ SACEM ], and Universal Production Music“Claraboo” by Denis Levaillant [ SACEM ], Jean-Marc Foltz [ SACEM ]. Koka Media [ SACEM ], and Universal Production Music“Hidden Movement” by Yoann Le Dantec [ SACEM ]. Koka Media [ SACEM ] , Universal Publishing Production Music France [ SACEM ], and Universal Production Music“Urban Migration” by Fred Dubois [ SACEM ]. Koka Media [ SACEM ] , Universal Publishing Production Music France [ SACEM ], and Universal Production Music || ", "hits": 99 }, { "id": 31099, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31099/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2020-02-05T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "A Changing Earth at Night (Regions)", "description": "NASA’s Black Marble products are also being used by scientists and decision-makers to monitor gradual changes driven by urbanization, out-migration, economic changes, and electrification. These images show the rapid electrification of India’s rural settlements in recent years. Huge swaths of northern India, relatively dark in 2012 night shots, are lit up in NASA’s Black Marble imagery from 2016. || NightLights.010_print.jpg (1024x576) [175.5 KB] || NightLights.010.png (5760x3240) [20.0 MB] || NightLights.010_searchweb.png (320x180) [101.2 KB] || NightLights.010_thm.png (80x40) [6.8 KB] || ", "hits": 248 }, { "id": 12700, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12700/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-12-08T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Can Data from Space Save Dolphins?", "description": "In an unprecedented collaboration between NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, scientists from a cross-section of fields pooled massive data sets together to investigate the possible connection between space weather and marine mammal mass stranding events. Music credits: Long Travels - Boris Nonte, Gregg LehrmanSpiritual Migration - Giles Robert LambCrystal Sound Bath - James Alexander DormanThe Space Between - Max ConcorsInducing Waves - Ben Niblett, Jon CottonEnchanted - Gregg Lehrman, Boris Nonte, Daniel Louis WalterComplete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Genna Duberstein/Scott Wiessinger || StrandingsPosterFrameTextv03.jpg (3840x2160) [3.0 MB] || 12700_NASA_Data_and_Dolphins_ProRes_FINAL.mov (1920x1080) [8.1 GB] || 12700_NASA_Data_and_Dolphins_FINAL_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [4.5 GB] || YOUTUBE_1080_12700_NASA_Data_and_Dolphins_FINAL_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [1.1 GB] || 12700_NASA_Data_and_Dolphins_H264_FINAL.mp4 (1920x1080) [716.4 MB] || 12700_NASA_Data_and_Dolphins_FINAL_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [613.7 MB] || YOUTUBE_1080_12700_NASA_Data_and_Dolphins_FINAL_youtube_1080.webm (1920x1080) [66.9 MB] || 12700_data_and_dolphins.en_US.srt [11.6 KB] || 12700_data_and_dolphins.en_US.vtt [11.5 KB] || ", "hits": 43 }, { "id": 40317, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/vcearth-video-wall/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2017-02-02T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "VC Earth Video Wall", "description": "list of videos to display on video wall in Earth science exhibit at Goddard Visitor Center", "hits": 6 }, { "id": 12351, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12351/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-08-26T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "ABoVE campaign videos", "description": "The Arctic Boreal and Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) covers 2.5 million square miles of tundra, forests, permafrost and lakes in Alaska and Northwestern Canada. ABoVE scientists are using satellites and aircraft to study this formidable terrain as it changes in a warming climate. Remote sensing by itself is not enough to understand the whole picture, so teams of researchers will go out into the field to gather data. With support from NASA’s Terrestrial Ecology Program, ABoVE researchers investigate questions about the role of climate in wildfires, thawing permafrost, wildlife migration habits, insect outbreaks and more. || ", "hits": 34 }, { "id": 12289, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12289/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-06-23T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth Expeditions", "description": "NASA gets down to Earth this year with eight major new field research campaigns. || cf-1024.jpg (1024x576) [252.4 KB] || cf-1280.jpg (1280x720) [364.5 KB] || cf-1920.jpg (1920x1080) [580.1 KB] || cf-1024_print.jpg (1024x576) [265.1 KB] || cf-1024_searchweb.png (320x180) [96.0 KB] || cf-1024_web.png (320x180) [96.0 KB] || cf-1024_thm.png (80x40) [7.1 KB] || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 12085, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12085/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-03-02T17:08:19-05:00", "title": "A Tour of Ceres", "description": "NASA’s Dawn mission begins to unlock mysteries of the asteroid belt’s largest object. || cf-1280.jpg (1280x720) [106.0 KB] || cf-1024.jpg (1024x576) [77.6 KB] || cf-1024_print.jpg (1024x576) [68.1 KB] || cf-1024_searchweb.png (320x180) [22.6 KB] || cf-1024_web.png (320x180) [22.6 KB] || cf-1024_thm.png (80x40) [12.5 KB] || ", "hits": 16 }, { "id": 30747, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30747/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2016-01-29T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "2015 El Niño Disrupts Ocean Chlorophyll", "description": "Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly & Ocean Color variations during El Nino vs. La Nina, using the rainbow colorbar for Ocean Color || ocean_color_ssta_swipe_new_rainbow_1080p.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [116.9 KB] || ocean_color_ssta_swipe_new_rainbow_1080p.mp4 (1920x1080) [2.4 MB] || ocean_color_ssta_swipe_new_rainbow_720p.mp4 (1280x720) [1.4 MB] || ocean_color_ssta_swipe_new_rainbow_720p.webm (1280x720) [3.8 MB] || ocean_color_ssta_swipe_new_rainbow_2304p.mp4 (4096x2304) [7.5 MB] || ocean_color_ssta_swipe_new_rainbow_360p.mp4 (640x360) [530.1 KB] || ", "hits": 59 }, { "id": 11920, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11920/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-10-08T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Drifting At Sea", "description": "An experiment in data visualization explores where research buoys end up in Earth’s oceans. || c-1024-75.jpg (1024x576) [442.5 KB] || c-1280-75.jpg (1280x720) [664.8 KB] || c-1920-75.jpg (1920x1080) [970.3 KB] || c-1024-75_print.jpg (1024x576) [462.5 KB] || c-1024-75_searchweb.png (320x180) [118.2 KB] || c-1024-75_web.png (320x180) [118.2 KB] || c-1024-75_thm.png (80x40) [17.8 KB] || ", "hits": 46 }, { "id": 4375, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4375/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-10-02T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Garbage Patch Visualization Experiment", "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.You may have heard of \"ocean garbage patches,\" areas in the ocean where litter and debris concentrates. This might stir up a vivid image of large blanketed areas of trash on the ocean surface that are easy to spot. But that’s not the case. Much of the debris consists of smaller pieces of plastic that are always moving and changing with the ocean currents, waves and winds. These can be difficult to see and predict. We set out to explore the processes and interactions that cause debris to flow to these patches using buoy and model data, and created a visualization based on our results. || ", "hits": 101 }, { "id": 4362, "url": "https://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": 26 }, { "id": 12013, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12013/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-09-24T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat Helps Feed the Birds", "description": "The BirdReturns program, created by The Nature Conservancy of California, is an effort to provide \"pop-up habitats\" for some of the millions of shorebirds, such as sandpipers and plovers, that migrate each year from their summer breeding grounds in Alaska and Canada to their winter habitats in California, Mexico, Central and South America. The route takes the birds along what’s called the Pacific Flyway, where they seek out the increasingly rare wetlands teeming with tasty insects to fuel their long-distance flights. The Nature Conservancy of California operates the BirdReturns program, with partners including Point Blue Conservation Science, Audubon California and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Over the last century, California's Central Valley has lost 95% of the wetlands habitat, which is needed for the shorebirds while on their migration. The solution involves big data, binoculars and rice paddies. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird program collects on-the-ground observations, including species and date spotted, from bird watchers nationwide. With a recent NASA grant to Cornell, scientists created computer models to analyze that information and combine it with satellite remote sensing imagery from Landsat and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instruments on NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites. With these models, they could identify areas in the Central Valley where birds flocked to during the spring and fall migrations, as well as estimate the number of birds making the journey.Some of his colleagues had been using Landsat images to look at where – and when – there was standing water, to assist with surveys of shorebirds.The nonprofit Point Blue, based in Petaluma, California, developed models that can classify habitats based on Landsat imagery. For the BirdReturns project, the team analyzed 1,500 Landsat scenes between 2000 and 2011, and then additional images from Landsat 8 after its 2013 launch. For each area not blocked by clouds, they classified whether there was surface water.Matching the location and timing of surface water from Landsat with the route and timing of migrating shorebirds from eBird, the BirdReturns program looks for those key sites where extra water would make a difference for the birds, which forage for food in the wetland areas. The Nature Conservancy then uses a reverse auction where farmers try to submit the lowest bid to turn their empty fields into a pop-up wetland for the few weeks the birds are stopping in the Central Valley while on their migration.We would like to thank the Point Blue and The Nature Conservancy for supplying Central Valley water data. Least sandpiper data courtesy of Cornell Lab of Ornithology, eBird Basic Dataset. Version: EBD_relMay-2013. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. May 2013. || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 4174, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4174/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-08-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Garbage Patch Visualization Experiment", "description": "We wanted to see if we could visualize the so-called ocean garbage patches. We start with data from floating, scientific buoys that NOAA has been distributing in the oceans for the last 35-year represented here as white dots. Let's speed up time to see where the buoys go... Since new buoys are continually released, it's hard to tell where older buoys move to. Let's clear the map and add the starting locations of all the buoys... Interesting patterns appear all over the place. Lines of buoys are due to ships and planes that released buoys periodically. If we let all of the buoys go at the same time, we can observe buoy migration patterns. The number of buoys decreases because some buoys don't last as long as others. The buoys migrate to 5 known gyres also called ocean garbage patches.We can also see this in a computational model of ocean currents called ECCO-2. We release particles evenly around the world and let the modeled currents carry the particles. The particles from the model also migrate to the garbage patches. Even though the retimed buoys and modeled particles did not react to currents at the same times, the fact that the data tend to accumulate in the same regions show how robust the result is.The dataset used for the ocean buoy visualization is the Global Drifter Database from the GDP Drifter Data Assembly Center, part of the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory. The data covered the period February 1979 through September 2013. Although the actual dataset has a wealth of data, including surface temperatures, salinities, etc., only the buoy positions were used in the visualization.This visualization was accepted as one of the \"Dailies\" at SIGGRAPH 2015. || ", "hits": 326 }, { "id": 40239, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/siggraph-2015/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2015-08-08T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Visualizations Presented at SIGGRAPH 2015", "description": "The SIGGRAPH conference is widely recognized as the most prestigious forum for the publication of computer graphics research. The conference provides an interdisciplinary educational experience highlighting outstanding achievements in time-based art, scientific visualization, visual effects, real-time graphics, and narrative shorts. Below are contributions to the conference made by members of NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio.", "hits": 92 }, { "id": 4329, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4329/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-07-29T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "SIGGRAPH 2015: Dailies", "description": "CALIPSO observes Saharan dust crossing the Atlantic OceanVisualizer: Kel ElkinsSummary:For the first time, a NASA satellite has quantified in three dimensions how much dust makes the trans-Atlantic journey from the Sahara Desert the Amazon rainforest. Among this dust is phosphorus, an essential nutrient that acts like a fertilizer, which the Amazon depends on in order to flourish.The new dust transport estimates were derived from data collected by a lidar instrument on NASA's Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation, or CALIPSO, satellite from 2007 though 2013.For complete transcript, click here.For more details and to download other media formats, click here. || 4273_African_Dust_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [125.8 KB] || 4273_African_Dust_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [71.2 KB] || Dust_Entire_1080p_60fps.3072_thm.png (80x40) [5.4 KB] || 4273_African_Dust_1280x720.webm (1280x720) [10.9 MB] || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 11353, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11353/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Follow The Line", "description": "You may think the seasons are caused by a change in the distance between Earth and the sun. In fact, the tilt of Earth on its axis is the most important factor. You can see this from space by watching the movement of Earth’s terminator—the edge between the shadows of nightfall and the sunlight of dusk and dawn. Because Earth spins on a tilted axis, the orientation of this line changes over the course of a year in sync with the seasons. On the September and March equinox, when Earth is at a right angle to the sun, light is spread evenly across the globe and the terminator runs from pole to pole. But on the December and June solstice, when Earth is tilted away from and toward the sun, respectively, light is cast disproportionately on each hemisphere, causing the terminator to appear slanted. Watch the video to view the migration of Earth's terminator across the seasons. || ", "hits": 8663 }, { "id": 11347, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11347/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-09-19T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Virtual Sky", "description": "Europe owes much of its weather to prevailing winds known as the westerlies. These consistent breezes, created in part by the planet’s rotation, blow from the west, bringing rain and moisture from the Atlantic Ocean to the continent. They also influence the migration of clouds. Throughout the year, the winds carry clouds east above Europe's vegetated, and sometimes snow-covered, landscape. Using a NASA supercomputer climate model called GEOS-5, scientists are able to simulate cloud movement over Europe and other parts of the world. Such models can help improve scientists' understanding of Earth's climate. In GEOS-5 simulations of Europe’s atmosphere, computer-generated clouds take on the appearance and motion of clouds imaged by Earth-observing satellites and astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Watch the video to see 15 days of simulated cloud changes across Europe. || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 11322, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11322/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-08-13T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Blushing Botanicals", "description": "A healthy plant is a glowing plant. That's because healthy plants that engage in photosynthesis—convert sunlight to energy—also emit fluorescent light. It's the same physical process that makes everyday objects glow in the dark. While human eyes are unable to detect the faint glow from plants, satellites hundreds of miles above Earth are up to the task. A team of researchers led by NASA scientists identified the fluorescence fingerprint in data collected by an instrument on a European meteorological satellite. A visualization of the data, released in 2013, allows scientists for the first time to see global changes in terrestrial plant fluorescence over the course of a month. That means a front-row seat to track the northward migration of plant blooming during the Northern Hemisphere springtime, as well as the shut down in fall—even before changing leaf colors indicate a seasonal shift is amiss. Watch the visualization for a tour of plant fluorescence around the world. || ", "hits": 39 }, { "id": 11333, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11333/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-08-02T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Zebra Crossing", "description": "Botswana's Okavango Delta and the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans are two ends of a 360-mile round trip zebra migration, the second longest on Earth. In this animation, shades of red show dry areas, green represents vegetation, and the dots show GPS tracked zebras. The zebras begin at the Okavango Delta in late September. After the dry Southern hemisphere winter, November rains signal it is time to begin their two-week journey to the Salt Pans. The zebras feast on nutrient-rich grasses all summer, and return to the Delta as the rain peters out in April.Fences blocked this zebra migration from 1968 to 2004. After they came down, researchers began tracking zebras with GPS and discovered this migration. They compared the zebras' location to NASA satellite data of rainfall and vegetation, and they found that migrating zebras have quickly learned when to leave the Delta and the Salt Pans using environmental cues. Researchers then use these cues to predict when the zebras will be on the move, a powerful tool for conservation. || ", "hits": 12 }, { "id": 4044, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4044/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-02-27T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Distributed Water Balance of the Nile Basin", "description": "This visualization shows how satellite data and NASA models are being applied to study the hydrology of the Nile basin. The Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) Multisensor Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) provides three-hourly estimates of rainfall rate across much of the globe. Here we see the seasonal cycle of monthly precipitation derived from TMPA for Africa, including the Nile Basin. The annual migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) from the Nile Equatorial Lakes region around Lake Victoria, source of the White Nile, northward into Sudan and the highlands of Ethiopia, headwaters of the Blue Nile, and back is evident in the seasonal cycle in precipitation. This precipitation cycle drives flow through the Nile River system. The Nile basin, however, is intensely evaporative, and the majority of the water that falls as rain leaves the basin as evaporation rather than river flow—either from the humid headwaters regions or from large reservoirs and irrigation developments in Egypt and Sudan. The Atmosphere Land Exchange Inverse (ALEXI) evapotranspiration product, developed by USDA scientists, uses satellite data to map daily evapotranspiration across the entire Nile basin, providing unprecedented information on water consumption. The balance of rainfall and evapotranspiration can be seen in seasonal patterns of soil moisture, as simulated by the NASA Nile Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS), which merges satellite information with a physically-based land surface model to simulate variability in soil moisture—a critical variable for rainfed agriculture and natural ecosystems. Finally, the twin satellites of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) can be used to monitor variability in total water storage, including surface water, soil moisture, and groundwater. The annual cycle in GRACE estimates of water storage anomalies clearly shows the seasonal movement of water storage due to precipitation patterns and the movement of surface waters from headwaters regions into the wetlands of South Sudan and the reservoirs of the lower Nile basin.The Nile is the longest river in the world and its basin is shared by 11 countries. Reliable, spatially distributed estimates of hydrologic storage and fluxes can provide critical information for water managers contending with multiple resource demands, a variable and changing climate, and the risk of damaging floods and droughts. NASA observations and modeling systems offer unique capabilities to meet these information needs. || ", "hits": 86 }, { "id": 11064, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11064/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-08-21T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Cool Migration", "description": "The world's second largest ice sheet seems uniform and motionless from above. But years of satellite measurements compressed into a few seconds illustrate just how fluid Greenland's ice really is. Several space agencies, including NASA, have closely monitored the ice sheet to understand how its dynamics might be influenced by changes to Earth's climate and how such changes could affect sea level rise. With the help of a remote sensing technique called radar interferometry, NASA scientists were able to create the first complete map that shows how Greenland's ice moves from the interior toward outlet glaciers on the coast. The speed and direction of the flows can be seen in the color-coded visualization, where areas shaded blue and purple represent the fastest ice, yellow and pink the slowest. || ", "hits": 38 }, { "id": 3849, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3849/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-08-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Antarctic Ice Flow Charted From Space", "description": "Harsh snows have blanketed Antarctica for so long that the continent has built up an ice sheet a mile thick from bedrock to surface in most places. Despite the ice cap's grip on the rocky landmass below, friction can only hold back the ice so much. A new, first-of-its-kind map from NASA reveals icy Antarctica as a landscape of constant movement. NASA scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and UC Irvine have charted this movement for the first time, using Canadian, Japanese and European satellite data to create a record of the speed and direction of ice flow across the entire continent. The map reveals glaciers and tributaries in patterned flows stretching hundreds of miles inland, like a system of rivers and creeks. Slow-moving flows found in largely unexplored East Antarctica defied previous understanding of ice migration. And scientists discovered a ridge that splits Antarctica from east to west. Explore the visualizations below to see the new benchmark map scientists can use to study the extent and speed of changes to the largest ice sheet in the world. || ", "hits": 114 }, { "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": 75 }, { "id": 20133, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20133/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2008-02-21T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Solar Cycle (High Definition)", "description": "This animation shows sunpot migration over a 11 year solar cycle and indicates the features causing total solar irradiance variability. For a standard definition version of this animation, please go to animation 10151. || ", "hits": 69 }, { "id": 3054, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3054/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-12-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Jakobshavn Glacial Floe", "description": "Jakobshavn Isbrae holds the record as Greenland's fastest moving glacier and major contributor to the mass balance of the continental ice sheet. Starting in late 2000, following a period of slowing down in the mid 1990s, the glacier showed significant acceleration and nearly doubled its discharge of ice. || ", "hits": 27 } ] }