Earth  Planets and Moons  ID: 2865

Earth-Mars Volcano Comparisons: True Color Earth

Visualizations by Alex Kekesi Released on April 22, 2004
Despite the 2:1 relative size difference between Earth and Mars, the Martian volcano, Olympus Mons, still dwarfs Earth's Mauna Loa, Hawaii volcano. When measured from the ocean floor, Mauna Loa is 10km. high compared to Olympus Mons at 23km. This animation is one element of the Earth-Mars comparison, showing Earth in its true color beauty. This animation is match-framed to animations #2864 through #2872.
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Animation starts with a true color Earth and slowly zooms down to Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
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True color earth using the Terra-MODIS BlueMarble global mosaic for both land and clouds.
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True color close-up of the Hawaiian Islands looking eastward (California is beyond the horizon).

Visualization Credits

Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Animator
Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Animator
Marte Newcombe (GST): Animator
Gregory Neumann (Johns Hopkins University): Scientist
James Garvin (NASA/HQ): Scientist
Herbert Frey (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, and Virginia Butcher (SSAI)

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Mission:
Terra

Data Used:
GTOPO30
Model - USGS
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Terra/MODIS/Blue Marble
2001/06-2001/09
Credit:
The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
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Terra/MODIS/Blue Marble Clouds
Credit:
The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
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This item is part of this series:
Earth-Mars Comparisons

Keywords:
SVS >> For Educators
SVS >> Earth >> Volcanoes >> Mauna Loa
SVS >> Earth-Mars Comparisons
NASA Science >> Earth
NASA Science >> Planets and Moons