Earth ID: 155

The HoloGlobe Project (Version 3)

Visualizations by Horace Mitchell Released on August 1, 1996

These animations were produced for the Smithsonian Institution's HoloGlobe Exhibit which opened to the public on August 10, 1996 at the Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. The various data sets show progressive global change mapped onto a rotating globe and projected into space to create a holographic image of the Earth. The exhibit shows that Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere are dynamic, changing on timescales of days, minutes, or even seconds. The exhibit has since been relocated to the west coast. This is a revised version from Animation #116 [The HoloGlobe Project (version 2)].

This image represents a one month sample (October 1983) of composite images from cloud cover data collected from a suite of U.S., European, and Japanese geostationary satellites and U.S. polar orbiting meteorological satellites.

Earth at Night. Night lights (pictured in white) are from Oct. 1994 to Mar. 1995. Cumulative fire data composited as follows: Fires in Brazil (Sep. 1997 to Oct. 1997), African fires (Oct. 1994 to Mar. 1995), Indonesian fires (Jun. 1997 to Oct. 1997), Austrailian fires (Nov. 1996 to Dec. 1996)

Sea Surface Temperature (SST): This image is a composite view of the earth in infrared radiation with clouds removed.

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Visualization Credits

Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Andy Acuna (Hughes STX): Animator
John Cavallo (Hughes STX): Animator
Liam Krauss (Hughes STX): Animator
Jim Strong (NASA/GSFC): Animator
Barbara Summey (Raytheon): Animator
Brian Tighe (NASA): Animator
Marit Jentoft-Nilsen (RSIS): Animator
Kannappan Palaniappan (NASA/GSFC): Animator
Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Animator
James Earl Jones: Narrator
Jim Strong (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Fritz Hasler (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Tom Watters (Smithsonian/Air and Space): Scientist
Tom Watters (Smithsonian/Air and Space): Writer

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center - Scientific Visualization Studio, Smithsonian Institution, Global Change Research Project (GCRP), National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA), United States Geological Survey, National Science Foundation (NSF), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Dynamic Media Associates (DMA), New York Film and Animation Company, Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI), Hughes STX Corporation

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