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            "release_date": "2023-07-22T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Lunar South Pole Terrain in Coded Color",
            "description": "A visualization of the south pole of the Moon with labeled craters and elevations in coded color. The view begins with a nearly full Moon as viewed from Earth, flies quickly to the south pole, then circles the pole.",
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            "title": "NASA’s New Views of Venus’ Surface From Space",
            "description": "NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible light images of the surface of Venus from space. Smothered in thick clouds, Venus’ surface is usually shrouded from sight. But in two recent flybys of the planet, Parker used its Wide-Field Imager, or WISPR, to image the entire nightside in wavelengths of the visible spectrum – the type of light that the human eye can see – and extending into the near-infrared.The images, combined into a video, reveal a faint glow from the surface that shows distinctive features like continental regions, plains, and plateaus. A luminescent halo of oxygen in the atmosphere can also be seen surrounding the planet.Link to NASA.gov feature.Link to associated research paper. || ",
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            "release_date": "2020-09-11T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Draining the Oceans",
            "description": "Data visualization of the draining of the Earth's oceans. The visualization simulates an incremental drop of 10 meters of the water’s level on Earth’s surface. As time progresses and the oceans drain, it becomes evident that underwater mountain ranges are bigger in size and trenches are deeper in comparison to those on dry land. While water drains quickly closer to continents, it drains slowly in our planet’s deepest trenches. || OceanDrain_3840x2160_60fps_0837_print.jpg (1024x576) [259.5 KB] || OceanDrain_3840x2160_60fps_0837_print_searchweb.png (320x180) [97.8 KB] || OceanDrain_3840x2160_60fps_0837_print_thm.png (80x40) [7.8 KB] || OceanDrain_1920x1080_30fps.mp4 (1920x1080) [44.2 MB] || OceanDrain_1920x1080_30fps.webm (1920x1080) [4.3 MB] || OceanDrain (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || OceanDrain (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || OceanDrain_3840x2160_60fps_0837.tif (3840x2160) [31.6 MB] || OceanDrain_3840x2160_30fps.mp4 (3840x2160) [154.1 MB] || OceanDrain_1920x1080_30fps.mp4.hwshow [192 bytes] || ",
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            "release_date": "2019-12-12T03:30:00-05:00",
            "title": "BedMachine: A high-precision map of Antarctic ice sheet bed topography",
            "description": "BedMachine is a new Antarctic bed topography product based on ice thickness data from 19 different research institutes dating back to 1967, encompassing nearly a million line-miles of radar soundings. BedMachine relies on the fundamental physics-based method of mass conservation to estimate what lies between the radar sounding lines, utilizing highly detailed information on ice flow motion from satellite data that dictates how ice moves. The dataset is available from the National Snow & Ice Data Center here. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4126/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2013-12-04T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Coldest Place on Earth",
            "description": "What is the coldest place in the world? It is a high ridge in Antarctica on the East Antarctic Plateau where temperatures in several hollows can dip below minus 133.6° Fahrenheit (minus 92° Celsius) on a clear winter night - colder than the previous recorded low temperature.Scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center made the discovery while analyzing the most detailed global surface temperature maps to date, developed with data from remote sensing satellites including the MODIS sensor on NASA's Aqua satellite, and the TIRS sensor on Landsat 8, a joint project of NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).The researchers analyzed 32 years of data from several satellite instruments that have mapped Antarctica's surface temperature. Near a high ridge that runs from Dome Arugs to Dome Fuji, the scientists found clusters of pockets that have plummeted to record low temperatures dozens of times. The lowest temperature the satellites detected - minus 136° F (minus 93.2° C), on Aug. 10, 2010.The new record is several degrees colder than the previous low of minus 128.6° F (minus 89.2° C), set in 1983 at the Russian Vostok Research Station in East Antarctica. The coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth is northeastern Siberia, where temperatures dropped to a bone-chilling 90 degrees below zero F (minus 67.8° C) in the towns of Verkhoyansk (in 1892) and Oimekon (in 1933).Related feature story: http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-usgs-landsat-8-satellite-pinpoints-coldest-spots-on-earth || ",
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            "release_date": "2013-08-29T14:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Greenland's Mega-Canyon beneath the Ice Sheet",
            "description": "Subglacial topography plays an important role in modulating the distribution and flow of meltwater beneath the ice known as basal water flow. This animation portrays topographic data of the bedrock under the Greenland ice sheet derived from ice-penetrating radar data. Clearly evident in the topography is a 750-km-long subglacial canyon in northern Greenland that is likely to have influenced basal water flow from the ice sheet interior to the margin. The authors suggest that the mega-canyon predates ice sheet inception and has influenced basal hydrology in Greenland over past glacial cycles. (See reference under \"Science Paper\" below)Starting with a view of the surface of Greenland, the animation zooms closer to the surface as the ice sheet is stripped away to reveal the false-color topography of the bedrock that lies beneath. Regions above sea level are shown in shades of green while areas below zero are colored by shades of brown. Yellow indicates the area near sea level. The topography is exaggerated from 12 to 40 times in order to accentuate the topographic relief. Visible in the topography from about the midpoint of Greenland to its Northwest coast is the 750-km-long subglacial canyon described by the authors. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10835/",
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            "release_date": "2011-10-13T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Space Lasers",
            "description": "While most satellites work like digital cameras and passively record a narrow spectrum of emitted or reflected radiation—visible light, in a camera's case—those equipped with lidar (Light Detection And Ranging) instruments use rapidly pulsating laser beams to actively detect specific features. Measurements made with lidar in recent years have provided detailed information about the topography of Earth's surface and characteristics of its atmosphere. ICESat, a NASA laser altimetry mission launched in 2003, monitored the changing elevation of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets and created 3-D maps of forest canopies throughout the world. Since 2006 NASA's CALIPSO satellite has detected clouds and airborne particles that reflect or absorb heat and help drive global climate. Watch the video below to learn how this advanced technology is used to study the contours of ice, clouds, trees, and even the cratered terrain of the moon. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3727/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2010-06-11T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "LOLA Lunar Topography in False Color",
            "description": "This animation is a brief tour of several prominent features of the Moon's terrain: Tycho crater, the south pole, and the South Pole-Aitken basin. The height of the terrain is color-coded, with blues and greens representing low altitudes and reds representing high altitudes. The view is match-moved to a companion piece showing the Moon in natural colors.This is an update of animation 3582, which was produced before the launch of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Except for the Tycho crater inset, the elevation map in this updated version is based entirely on early results of the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter onboard LRO. These results already represent a substantial improvement in our knowledge of the Moon's topography. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3686/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2010-03-15T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "LRO/LOLA Lunar South Pole Flyover",
            "description": "The Lunar Reconnaissance Oribiter (LRO) was launched on June 18, 2009. Its mission is to map the moon's surface, find safe landing sites, locate potential resources, characterize the radiation environment, and demonstrate new technology. One of the instruments on board is the  Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) which measures landing site slopes, lunar surface roughness, and has begun generation of a high resolution 3D map of the Moon.This visualization uses Clementine data for the global view of the moon, but then transitions to using only LRO/LOLA DEM with a neutral gray texture when flying around the lunar south pole. The DEM by itself creates an amazingly realistic view of the lunar southpole. As better maps are created from the other instruments aboard LRO, an even clearer picture of the moon will emerge.Please note that this visualization is match-frame rendered to The Moon's South Pole in 3D via LRO/LOLA First Light Data (#3633). || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3633/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2009-09-16T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "The Moon's South Pole in 3D via LRO/LOLA First Light Data",
            "description": "The Lunar Reconnaissance Oribiter (LRO) was launched on June 18, 2009. Its mission is to map the moon's surface, find safe landing sites, locate potential resources, characterize the radiation environment, and demonstrate new technology. One of the instruments on board is the  Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) which measures landing site slopes, lunar surface roughness, and has begun generation of a high resolution 3D map of the Moon. The animation depicted here is the beginning of  LOLA's mapping project and shows the lunar south pole through digital elevation map data collected by the  LOLA instrument during the spacecraft commissioning phase. During the commissioning phase, LRO was in a highly elliptical orbit coming closer to the lunar south pole than the north pole. Furthermore, since  LOLA uses laser pulses to measure the surface, the accuracy of its measurements are greatly affected by the instrument's distance to the surface. This is why there is virtually no data of the lunar north pole, and much better coverage of the south pole. The topographic data shown here is currently processed to show at approximately 30 meters per pixel.The colors in this animation depict the relative heights of the lunar surface with respect to the surface mean. Warm colors (brown, red, magenta, and tan) indicate areas above the mean. Cooler colors (green, cyan, blue, and violet) are areas below the mean. || ",
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            "id": 3628,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3628/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2009-07-17T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Galapagos Islands Flyby",
            "description": "Straddling the equator approximately 1000 kilometers to the west of the South American mainland, the Galapagos Islands lie within the heart of the equatorial current system.  Rising from the sea floor, the volcanic islands of the Galapagos are set on top of a large submarine platform.  The main portion of the Galapagos platform is relatively flat and less than 1000 meters in depth.  The steepest slopes are found along the western and southern flanks of the platform with a gradual slope towards the east.  The interactions of the Galapagos and the oceanic currents create vastly different environmental regimes which not only isolates one part of the Archipelago from the other but allows penguins to live along the equator on the western part of the Archipelago and tropical corals around the islands to the north.  The islands are relatively new in geologic terms with the youngest islands in the west still exhibiting periodic eruptions from their massive volcanic craters. || ",
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