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            "release_date": "2025-02-09T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Science on a Sphere: VIIRS Global Fires",
            "description": "VIIRS Fires for Science on a Sphere || fires_SoaS_no_gaps.0001_print.jpg (1024x512) [100.3 KB] || fires_SoaS_no_gaps.0001_searchweb.png (320x180) [43.4 KB] || fires_SoaS_no_gaps (4096x2048) [1490 Item(s)] || fires_SoaS_no_gaps.0001_thm.png [5.0 KB] || fires_SoaS_no_gaps_2048p30.mp4 (4096x2048) [58.3 MB] || Colorbar || colorbar_frp3.png (1920x960) [92.5 KB] || colorbar_frp3_print.jpg (1024x512) [23.5 KB] ||",
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            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2025-01-20T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Science On a Sphere: 4 Years of Biosphere",
            "description": "Biosphere data processed for display on Science On a Sphere (SOS)",
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            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2024-03-25T13:30:00-04:00",
            "title": "Insolation during the 2024 Eclipse",
            "description": "Insolation (the amount of sunlight reaching the ground) is affected dramatically by the Moon's shadow during the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. || insol.0765_print.jpg (1024x576) [144.8 KB] || insol.0765_searchweb.png (320x180) [73.2 KB] || insol.0765_thm.png (80x40) [6.1 KB] || eclipse2024_insol_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [10.4 MB] || eclipse2024_insol_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [21.3 MB] || eclipse2024_insol_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [66.1 MB] || 3840x2160_16x9_30p (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || eclipse2024_insol_360p30.mp4 (640x360) [3.2 MB] || ",
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            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2017-02-15T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "August 21, 2017 Total Solar Eclipse Path for Spherical Displays",
            "description": "A map-like view of the Earth during the total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, showing the umbra (black oval), penumbra (concentric shaded ovals), and the path of totality (red). This equirectangular projection is suitable for spherical displays and for spherical mapping in 3D animation software. || eclipse.0800_print.jpg (1024x512) [113.6 KB] || eclipse.0800_searchweb.png (320x180) [65.4 KB] || eclipse.0800_thm.png (80x40) [6.0 KB] || eclipse_1024p15.mp4 (2048x1024) [31.2 MB] || eclipse_2048p15.mp4 (4096x2048) [85.6 MB] || eclipse_512p15.mp4 (1024x512) [9.6 MB] || 4096x2048_2x1_15p (4096x2048) [0 Item(s)] || eclipse_512p15.webm (1024x512) [8.4 MB] || ",
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            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2016-05-23T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Insolation during the 2017 Eclipse",
            "description": "Insolation (the amount of sunlight reaching the ground) is affected dramatically by the Moon's shadow during the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse. || usa_insol.0720_print.jpg (1024x576) [123.2 KB] || usa_insol.0720_searchweb.png (320x180) [75.0 KB] || usa_insol.0720_thm.png (80x40) [6.4 KB] || usa_insol_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [17.6 MB] || usa_insol_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [9.1 MB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || usa_insol_720p30.webm (1280x720) [4.8 MB] || usa_insol_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [53.2 MB] || usa_insol_360p30.mp4 (640x360) [3.1 MB] || 3840x2160_16x9_30p (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4100/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2013-11-08T11:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Fluorescence Visualizations in High-Resolution (Comparison to NDVI)",
            "description": "During photosynthesis, plants fluoresce. This faint glow is in the infrared part of the spectrum, not visible to the naked eye but detectable by satellites orbiting hundreds of miles above Earth. NASA scientists established a method to turn this satellite data into global maps of the subtle phenomenon in more detail than ever before.The new maps, released in 2013, provide a 16-fold increase in spatial resolution and a 3-fold increase in temporal resolution over the first proof-of-concept maps released in 2011. This lets scientists use fluorescence to observe, for example, variation in the length of the growing season.These visualizations of the phenomenon shows global land plant fluorescence data collected from 2007 to 2011, combined to depict a single average year. Darker greens indicates regions with little or no fluorescence; lighter greens and white indicate regions of high fluorescence.Fluorescence and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) are compared. A visualization is provided comparing the northern hemisphere of both data sets. Individual visualizations are also provided in a standard cylindrical equidistant projection for wrapping to a globe. The same color bars are used for both data sets for easier comparison. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4085/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2013-09-02T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Water Falls (Science On a Sphere show): Hurricane Sandy",
            "description": "Hurricane Sandy segment for the GPM Science On a Sphere (SOS) show titled \"Water Falls\". The hurricane visualization is generated from GEOS-5 model output spanning October 26, 2012 to November 2, 2012 and repeated on the globe three times. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3908/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2012-02-08T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "ECCO2 Sea Surface Temperature and Flows",
            "description": "Generated for Science On a Sphere show \"Loop\". This animation depicts the part of Earth's ocean circulation model that involves heat transfer.In the polar latitudes the ocean loses heat to the atmosphere. Near the equator ocean water warms, and because it is less dense, it remains close to the surface. Cast away from the planet's equator by the winds and Earth's rotation, warm equatorial waters travel on or near the surface of the globe outward toward high latitudes. But as water loses heat to the increasingly cold atmosphere far away from the equator it sinks and pushes other water out of the way. Endlessly, this pump known as Meridional Overturning Circulation, circulates water and heat around the globe. Considering that the ocean stores exponentially more heat than the atmosphere and the fact that they're always in direct contact with each other, there's a strong relationship between oceanic heat and atmospheric circulation. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3881/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2011-12-09T15:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Thermohaline Circulation on a Flat Map",
            "description": "The oceans are mostly composed of warm salty water near the surface over cold, less salty water in the ocean depths. These two regions don't mix except in certain special areas. The ocean currents, the movement of the ocean in the surface layer, are driven primarily by the wind. In certain areas near the polar oceans, the colder surface water also gets saltier due to evaporation or sea ice formation. In these regions, the surface water becomes dense enough to sink to the ocean depths. This pumping of surface water into the deep ocean forces the deep water to move horizontally until it can find an area on the world where it can rise back to the surface and close the current loop. This usually occurs in the equatorial ocean, mostly in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. This very large, slow current is called the thermohaline circulation because it is caused by temperature and salinity (haline) variations.This animation shows one of the major regions where this pumping occurs, the North Atlantic Ocean around Greenland, Iceland, and the North Sea. The surface ocean current brings new water to this region from the South Atlantic via the Gulf Stream and the water returns to the South Atlantic via the North Atlantic Deep Water current. The continual influx of warm water into the North Atlantic polar ocean keeps the regions around Iceland and southern Greenland generally free of sea ice year round.The animation also shows another feature of the global ocean circulation: the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. The region around latitude 60 south is the only part of the Earth where the ocean can flow all the way around the world with no obstruction by land. As a result, both the surface and deep waters flow from west to east around Antarctica. This circumpolar motion links the world's oceans and allows the deep water circulation from the Atlantic to rise in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, thereby closing the surface circulation with the northward flow in the Atlantic.The flows in this visualization are based on current theories of the thermohaline circulation rather than actual data or computational model runs. The thermohaline circulation is a very slow moving current that can be difficult to distinguish from general ocean circulation. Therefore, it is difficult to measure and simulate.This visualization was produced for the Science On a Sphere production \"Loop\". It is intended to be over-layed on a world map background. Below are 3 sets of 4 sequences. The first set of 4 sequences are all composited over a world map background with a limited number of frames that make them loopable (with a very slight jump at the point where the looping happens). This is primarily provided for real-time displays such as hyperwall systems. The 4 sequences are: all depth layers combined, shallow depths, middle depths, and deep depths.The second set is the same as the first set except that the layers are not composited over the background and instead include and alpha channel. The third layer is actually the frames that were used in the film \"Loop\" and consist of a large number of continuous, seamless frames. Each sequence is as before, all layers, shallow, middle, and deep layers all with alpha channels.The depth layers nominally correspond to the following ranges below sea level: shallow (0m - 600m), middle (1875m - 2500m), and deep (3000m - 4000m). These depths do vary with bathymetry. So, in areas where the sea floor is not very deep, these depths are scaled so that the flows do not interesct the sea floor or each other. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3878/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2011-10-26T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "NASA's \"Loop\" Poster",
            "description": "This image was generated for the NASA \"Loop\" Science On a Sphere poster. The land data used is from NASA's Next Generation Blue Marble. Clouds are from NASA/Goddard's Global Modeling & Assimilation Office. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3837/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2011-06-13T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Components of the Water Cycle on a Flat Map for Science On a Sphere",
            "description": "Water regulates climate, predominately storing heat during the day and releasing it at night. Water in the ocean and atmosphere carry heat from the tropics to the poles. The process by which water moves around the earth, from the ocean, to the atmosphere, to the land and back to the ocean is called the water cycle. The animations below each portray a component of the water cycle. These animations of the components of the water cycle were created for the Science On a Sphere production \"Loop\" using data from the GEOS-5 atmospheric model on the cubed-sphere, run at 14-km global resolution for 25-days. Variables animated here include hourly clouds, precipitation, evaporation and water vapor. For more information on GEOS-5 see https://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/systems/geos5. Some of these visualizations are an orthographic view of the data used in Components of the Water Cycle. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3636/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2009-09-25T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Hubble Space Telescope Observes the Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter",
            "description": "From July 16 through July 22, 1994, pieces of an object designated as Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter. This is the first collision of two solar system bodies ever to be observed, and the effects of the comet impacts on Jupiter's atmosphere have been simply spectacular and beyond expectations. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 consisted of at least 21 discernable fragments with diameters estimated at up to 2 kilometers. IMPORTANT NOTE: These images are for visualization purposes only. They are not suitable for scientific analysis. || ",
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        {
            "id": 3520,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3520/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2009-09-21T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Flow Field Representation of Jupiter's Great Red Spot",
            "description": "This visualization shows a simple simulated flow field representation of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. The flow field is static (i.e., the wind directions don't change over time). This visualization was created in support of the Science On a Sphere film called \"Largest\" which is about Jupiter. These frames were rendered \"flat\" and are intended to be duplicated several times around the sphere. || ",
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            "id": 3604,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3604/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2009-09-21T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Pull out from Jupiter Showing Moon Orbits",
            "description": "NOTE: The orbital plane of the moons in these visualizations is incorrect.  The Galilean moons should be aligned to Jupiter's equator.This visualization shows jupiter and 63 of its moons. We start close in to Jupiter showing relativly fast moving inner moons that are generally in the same orbital plane including the so called 'Galilean moons': Europa, Io, Ganymede, and Callisto. Other inner moons are: Amalthea, Thebe, Adrastea, and Metis. These inner moons orbit Jupiter as fast as about every 7 hours to about every 17 days. These moons are also relativly close to Jupiter: from around 100 thousand to a couple of million kilometers away.We pull back revealing many smaller moons much farther away (tens of millions of kilometers) in much longer orbits (up to several years). Time speeds up to show the motion of these moons in irregular orbits. The following outer moons are displayed: Himalia, Elara, Pasiphae, Sinope, Lysithea, Carme, Ananke, Leda, Callirrhoe, Themisto, Megaclite, Taygete, Chaldene, Harpalyke, Kalyke, Iocaste, Erinome, Isonoe, Praxidike, Autonoe, Thyone, Hermippe, Aitne, Eurydome, Euanthe, Euporie, Orthosie, Sponde, Kale, Pasithee, Hegemone, Mneme, Aoede, Thelxinoe, Arche, Kallichore, Helike, Carpo, Eukelade, Cyllene, Kore, S/2000 J11, S/2003 J2, S/2003 J3, S/2003 J4, S/2003 J5, S/2003 J9 ,S/2003 J10, S/2003 J12, S/2003 J15, S/2003 J16, S/2003 J17, S/2003 J18, S/2003 J19, and S/2003 J23.This visualization was created in support of the Science On a Sphere film called \"Largest\" which is about Jupiter. The visualziation was choreographed to fit into \"Largest\" as a layer that is Intended to be composited with other layers including a background starfield. Three copies of this shot are arranged with orbits that fade on as we pull back in order to facilitate a seamless inset (without orbits falling off the boarder) on the Science On a Sphere composited frames. || ",
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        {
            "id": 3607,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3607/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2009-09-21T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Shoemaker-Levy 9 Hitting Jupiter with Orbit Trails",
            "description": "This visualziation shows the major fragments of comet Showmaker-Levy 9 colliding with Jupiter. The orbits are driven using ephemeris data. The impacts occurred over a series of about six Earth days which is why Jupiter (which rotates about once every Earth 10 hours) appears to be rotating so fast in this visualization; time is is depicted at about 7 hours per second of animation.The comet fragments shown are: \"a\", \"b\", \"c\", \"d\", \"e\", \"f\", \"g\", \"h\", \"k\", \"l\", \"n\", \"p\", \"p\", \"q\", \"q\", \"r\", \"s\", \"t\", \"u\", \"v\", and \"w\". Several letters were skipped (due to lack of ephemeris) and 2 letters \"p\" and \"q\" appear twice; these are also known as \"p1\", \"p2\", \"q1\", and \"q2\".This visualization was created in support of the Science On a Sphere film called \"LARGEST\" which is about Jupiter. The visualziation was choreographed to fit into \"LARGEST\" as a layer that is intended to be composited with other layers including a match-rendered background star field. Three copies of this shot are arranged in order to facilitate a seamless inset on the Science On a Sphere composited frames. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3608/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2009-09-21T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "One Thousand Earths Could Fit Inside Jupiter",
            "description": "This animation illustrates that it would take about 1000 Earths to fill a volume the size of Jupiter.This visualization was created in support of the Science On a Sphere film called \"LARGEST\" which is about Jupiter. The visualziation was choreographed to fit into \"LARGEST\" as a layer that is intended to be composited with other layers. In this case, mulitple layers are provided to make the it appear as if a sphere were filling up with Earths. These frames are in cylindrical equidistant projection and are intended to be viewed wrapped to a sphere. A sample composite of the layers is provided to show how the shot might be composed from the source layers. || ",
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            "id": 3609,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3609/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2009-09-21T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Rotation Period Comparison Between Earth and Jupiter",
            "description": "This animation illustrates the difference in the rotational period between the Earth and Jupiter. Earth rotates once in 24 hours; whereas, Jupiter rotates more quickly, taking only about 10 hours. This means that Jupiter rotates about 2 1/2 times faster than the Earth. However, Jupiter is about 11 times bigger than the Earth, so matter near the outer 'surface' of Jupiter is travelling much faster (about 30 times faster) than matter at the outer 'surface' of Earth.This visualization was created in support of the Science On a Sphere film called \"LARGEST\" which is about Jupiter. The visualziation was choreographed to fit into \"LARGEST\" as a layers intended to be composited. The 2 animations of Earth and Jupiter are match rendered so that if played back at the same frame rate (say 30 frames per second), the relative rotational speed differences will be accurate. An example composite is provided for reference; in this composite, only a portion of Jupiter is shown so that the relative sizes of the planets are also represented. The composited shot is designed to be repeated around the scienice on a sphere display several times. || ",
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        {
            "id": 3610,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3610/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2009-09-21T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Jupiter Cloud Sequence from Cassini",
            "description": "When the Cassini mission flew by the planet Jupiter in late 2000, a sequence of full disk images were taken of the planet. Assembled with proper spatial and temporal registration, the sequence could produce fourteen distinct images suitable for wrapping around a sphere.But the time steps between images were large and exhibited significant jumping. The solution was to create additional images between the existing set by interpolation. But simple interpolation would not work due to significant changes between the images.To solve this, we interpolated between the images using the velocity vector field of the cloud images. The velocity vector field was computed by performing a 2-dimensional cross-correlation (Wikipedia: Cross-correlation) between the images. This velocity field was checked against Jupiter velocity profiles from the scientific literature and agreement was excellent. With the addition of a simple vortex flow at the location of the Great Red Spot, the interpolation process was used to generate intermediate images, increasing the total number of images from 14 to 220 and resulting in a smoother animation.  The elapsed time between each interpolated frame corresponds to about 1 hour.  More info on the image sequence is available at Jupiter Mosaics and Movies - Rings, Satellites, AtmosphereIMPORTANT NOTE: These images are for visualization purposes only. They are not suitable for scientific analysis. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3611/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2009-09-21T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Jupiter Cloud Sequence from Voyager 1",
            "description": "When the Voyager 1 mission flew by the planet Jupiter in March of 1979, a sequence of full disk images were taken of the planet. Assembled with proper spatial and temporal registration, the sequence could produce fourteen distinct images suitable for wrapping around a sphere.But the time steps between images were large and exhibited significant jumping and data gaps. The solution was to create additional images between the existing set by interpolation. But simple interpolation would not work due to significant changes between the images.To solve this, we interpolated between the images using the velocity vector field of the cloud images. The velocity vector field was computed by performing a 2-dimensional cross-correlation (Wikipedia: Cross-correlation) between the images. This velocity field was checked against Jupiter velocity profiles from the scientific literature and agreement was excellent. With the addition of a simple vortex flow at the location of the Great Red Spot, the interpolation process was used to generate intermediate images, increasing the total number of images from 14 to 220 and resulting in a smoother animation.IMPORTANT NOTE: These images are for visualization purposes only. They are not suitable for scientific analysis. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3614/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2009-09-21T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Jupiter Cloud Sequence from Voyager 2",
            "description": "When the Voyager 2 mission flew by the planet Jupiter in July of 1979, a sequence of full disk images were taken of the planet. Assembled with proper spatial and temporal registration, the sequence could produce fourteen distinct images suitable for wrapping around a sphere.But the time steps between images were large and exhibited significant jumping and data gaps. The solution was to create additional images between the existing set by interpolation. But simple interpolation would not work due to significant changes between the images.To solve this, we interpolated between the images using the velocity vector field of the cloud images. The velocity vector field was computed by performing a 2-dimensional cross-correlation (Wikipedia: Cross-correlation) between the images. This velocity field was checked against Jupiter velocity profiles from the scientific literature and agreement was excellent. With the addition of a simple vortex flow at the location of the Great Red Spot, the interpolation process was used to generate intermediate images, increasing the total number of images from 14 to 220 and resulting in a smoother animation.IMPORTANT NOTE: These images are for visualization purposes only. They are not suitable for scientific analysis. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3615/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2009-09-21T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Equirectangular Projected Earth for \"LARGEST\"",
            "description": "This still of the Earth with clouds is intended to be wrapped to a sphere. The look (i.e., appearance of the clouds, coloration of the ocean, etc) was art-directed to meet the needs of a particular production.This visualization was created in support of the Science On a Sphere film called \"LARGEST\" which is about Jupiter. This still image matches several other Earth apperances from the film. || ",
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        {
            "id": 3616,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3616/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2009-09-21T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Galilean moon orbits from Callisto into Jupiter",
            "description": "NOTE: The orbital plane of the moons in these visualizations is incorrect.  The Galilean moons should be aligned to Jupiter's equator.This visualization starts close in on Jupiter's moon Callisto. We pull back and start moving in towards Jupiter, passing Ganymede on the way. Io and Europa are off in the distance behind Jupiter as we push in and Jupiter fills the screen.This visualization was created in support of the Science On a Sphere film called \"LARGEST\" which is about Jupiter. The visualziation was choreographed to fit into \"LARGEST\" as a layers to be composited in post-production. There are five separate layers that were designed to give the editors flexibility in reagrds to when particular objects faded in/out. There are three layers that are identical except that Callisto and Jupiter are offset 0, 120, and 240 degrees; this is for a zoom out/in effect that transitions quickly to fully wrapped images of Callisto/Jupiter. A background layer contains only Io and Europa. Finally a layer with Jupiter as a gray ball in included for use in masking. All of the layers are intended to be composited over a starfield. Since there is very little camera motion other than a push in, a moving starfield is not provided for this shot.A composite movie is included to illustrate how the layers were intended to be used. || ",
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        },
        {
            "id": 3617,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3617/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2009-09-21T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Inner moons of Jupiter Push In to Europa",
            "description": "This visualization starts showing the orbits of Jupiter's inner moons (Europa, Io, Ganymede, Callisto, Amalthea, Thebe, Adrastea, and Metis). As the orbits procede we begin to zero in on Europa. Other moons and orbits fade away as we push in to Europa filling the screen.This visualization was created in support of the Science On a Sphere film called \"LARGEST\" which is about Jupiter. Mulitple layer offset 120 degrees from each other are intended to overlay the orbits. A Europa label is provided so that it can be faded out in post production. A separate layer for Jupiter is also provided so that the other moons and orbit trails can also be faded out, leaving only Jupiter. || ",
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        },
        {
            "id": 10477,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10477/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2009-09-04T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "LARGEST: A Spherical Movie About Jupiter",
            "description": "NASA's home for spherical films on Magic Planet. Download the Magic Planet-ready movie file here.Three hundred and eighty million miles from Earth, the solar system's largest planet spins like a sizzling top in the night, massive and powerful beyond all comparison short of the sun itself. It's therefore only fitting—and certainly about time—that the fifth planet receive its proper cinematic due, set naturally on the most appropriate cinematic platform. With the movie LARGEST, Jupiter comes to Science On a Sphere.LARGEST examines the gas giant like a work of art, like a destination of celestial wonder. Starting with the basics, the movie examines the gross anatomy of the immense planet. From swirling winds to astounding rotational velocity to unimaginable size, Jupiter demands nothing less than a list of superlatives. But where general description sets the stage, LARGEST parts the curtains on humanity's experience with the fifth planet. The movie takes us on a journey to this immense sphere via dramatic fly-bys with some of the most astounding robotic probes ever designed. Then, with NASA instruments trained on the striped behemoth, the drama really begins.NASA released LARGEST on September 15, 2009. It is one in a series of spherical movies created entirely by staff at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. But while the process to create a fully spherical movie is something of an in-house Goddard creation, the Science On a Sphere projection system itself is an invention of the space agency's sibling NOAA.This film has been prepared exclusively for playback on spherical projections systems. It will not play properly on a traditional computer or television screen. If you are interested in downloading the complete final movie file for spherical playback, please visit ftp://public.sos.noaa.gov/extras/.For more information about the movie itself, visit the main website at www.nasa.gov/largest. || ",
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        {
            "id": 3579,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3579/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2009-02-05T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Sea Ice over the Arctic and Antarctic designed for Science On a Sphere (SOS) and WMS",
            "description": "Sea ice is frozen seawater floating on the surface of the ocean, typically averaging a few meters in thickness. Some sea ice is semi-permanent, persisting from year to year, and some is seasonal, melting and refreezing from season to season. This animation shows how the seasonal global sea ice has changed from day to day since 2002, when the Aqua satellite was launched. The AMSR-E instrument on the Aqua satellite acquires high resolution measurements of the 89 GHz brightness temperature and sea ice concentration near the poles. This sensor is able to observe the entire polar region every day, even through clouds and snowfall, because it is not very sensitive to atmospheric effects. The false color of the sea ice, derived from the AMSR-E 6.25 km 89 GHz brightness temperature, highlights the fissures or divergence areas in the sea ice cover by warm brightness temperatures (in blue) while cold brightness temperatures, shown in brighter white, represent consolidated sea ice. The sea ice edge identifies areas containing at least 15% ice concentration in the three-day moving average of the AMSR-E 12.5 km sea ice concentration data.This sequence shows the daily global sea ice over both the Arctic and Antarctic on a Cartesian grid from June 21, 2002 through December 31, 2008 at a frame rate of four frames per day. On days when data is not available, the prior or following day's data is used. Periods when data was absent for several consecutive days include: 2002/07/29 through 2002/08/08, 2002/09/11 through 2002/09/20, and 2003/10/29 through 2003/11/03. || ",
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        },
        {
            "id": 3481,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3481/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2008-11-05T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Minimum Sea Ice Comparison: 2005, 2007 and the 1979-2007 Average for Science On a Sphere (SOS)",
            "description": "Sea ice is frozen seawater floating on the surface of the ocean. Some sea ice is semi-permanent, persisting from year to year, and some is seasonal, melting and refreezing from season to season. The sea ice cover reaches its minimum extent at the end of each summer and the remaining ice is called the perennial ice cover. The 2007 Arctic summer sea ice reached the lowest extent of perennial ice cover on record - nearly 25% less than the previous low set in 2005. The area of the perennial ice has been steadily decreasing since the satellite record began in 1979, at a rate of about 10% per decade. But the 2007 minimum, reached on September 14, is far below the previous record made in 2005 and is about 38% lower than the climatological average. Such a dramatic loss has implications for ecology, climate and industry. A full global version of this animation was developed for a Science On a Sphere exhibit. The animation is shown on a plane with a geographic (lat/lon) projection, but has been rotated 90 degrees so that the Arctic is in the center of the image. The animation compares the difference between the perennial sea ice minimum extent on September 21, 2005 and September 14, 2007. Both years are compared with the 1979-2007 average minimum sea ice. || ",
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        },
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            "id": 3508,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3508/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2008-10-30T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Annual Arctic Minimum Sea Ice from 1979 - 2008 designed for Science On a Sphere (SOS) and WMS",
            "description": "In 2007, Arctic summer sea ice reached its lowest extent on record - nearly 25% less than the previous low set in 2005. At the end of each summer, the sea ice cover reaches its minimum extent and what is left, called the perennial ice cover, consists mainly of thick multi-year ice floes. The area of the perennial ice has been steadily decreasing since the satellite record began in 1979, at a rate of about 10% per decade. But the 2007 minimum, reached on September 14, is far below the previous record made in 2005 and is about 38% lower than the climatological average. This visualization shows the annual Arctic sea ice minimum from 1979 to 2008 on a Cartesian grid with a transparent background for use in Science On a Sphere and WMS. || ",
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        },
        {
            "id": 3565,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3565/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2008-10-30T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Aqua MODIS: Snow Cover designed for Science On a Sphere (SOS) and WMS",
            "description": "The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) provides data in 36 spectral bands, some of which are used to map global snow cover. However, MODIS can only take measurements of the surface in daylight, cloud-free areas. For this animation, valid snowcover measurements are retained over time during darkness or cloudy days until a subsequent valid measurement is found. This animation shows the dynamic advance and retreat of MODIS daily snow cover from September 1, 2002 through September 20, 2008. || ",
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        },
        {
            "id": 3534,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3534/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2008-08-13T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Global Glacier Locations designed for Science On a Sphere (SOS) and WMS",
            "description": "This animation shows the locations of glaciers worldwide as semi-transparent markers that shrink over a time. Location data for the glaciers was collected from a wide variety of databases including the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) Glacier Database, the World Glacier Inventory, the West Greenland Glacier Inventory, the Antarctic Names Database, the Atlas of Canada and the Antarctic Digital database. In total, over 174,000 glaciers were identified. This set of glaciers was thinned spatially to retain only glaciers that were at least 1/4 degree away from other glacier locations in order to remove points that appeared coincident given the size of the location markers and the resolution of the images generated. Here, markers represent random locations where glaciers are found. Markers are stretched as required in latitude so that all markers appear circular when projected on the sphere. The markers begin as large and semi-transparent buttons, and change color, size and opacity over a period of 12 frames. || ",
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        },
        {
            "id": 3511,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3511/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2008-05-07T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Global Permafrost Layers designed for Science On a Sphere (SOS) and WMS",
            "description": "Permafrost is permanently frozen ground that remains at or below 0°C for at least two years. The circumpolar permafrost and ground ice data depicts the distribution of permafrost and ground ice in the Northern Hemisphere and shows continuous, discontinuous, sporadic, and isolated permafrost boundaries. || ",
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        },
        {
            "id": 3523,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3523/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2008-01-07T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Seasonal Landcover for Science On a Sphere",
            "description": "The Blue Marble Next Generation (BMNG) data set provides a monthly global cloud-free true-color picture of the Earth's land cover at a 500-meter spatial resolution. This series of images fades from month to month showing seasonal variations such as snowfall, spring greening and droughts in a seamless fashion. The data set,derived from monthly data collected in 2004, is shown on a flat cartesian grid. The ocean color is derived from applying a depth shading to the bathymetry data. Where available, the Antarctica coverage shown is the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA). || ",
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        },
        {
            "id": 3564,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3564/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2008-01-06T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Sea Ice over the Arctic and Antarctic designed for Science On a Sphere (SOS) and WMS",
            "description": "Sea ice is frozen seawater floating on the surface of the ocean, typically averaging a few meters in thickness. Some sea ice is semi-permanent, persisting from year to year, and some is seasonal, melting and refreezing from season to season. This animation shows how the seasonal global sea ice has changed from day to day in both the northern and southern hemisphere since 2002, when the Aqua satellite was launched.This series shows the daily global sea ice over both the Arctic and Antarctic from June 21, 2002 through September 22, 2008. Global data from the AMSR-E instrument on the Aqua satellite is shown on a Cartesian grid. The sea ice extent is derived from the daily AMSR-E 12.5 km sea ice concentration where the ice concentration is above 15%. || ",
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