Earth  ID: 3880

Earth Observing Spacecraft Fleet shot for Dynamic Earth Dome Show

Visualizations by Greg Shirah Released on October 1, 2013
This visualization shows the orbits of NASA's fleet of Earth observing spacecraft. It also includes the International Space Station and Hubble Space Telescope. This was created for a planetarium dome show called Dynamic Earth and is produced in domemaster format (a type of fisheye projection).

The domemaster format was created by rendering 7 separate camera tiles. The tiles were then stitched together to form final domemaster layers at 4096x4096 resolution and 16 bits per channel with premultiplied alpha and no gamma correction. A composite version is provided along with the layers. There are 3 domemaster layers intended to be composited as follows: the Earth and orbits layer over Sun layer over star field (no alpha channel).

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NASA's Earth observing fleet orbiting Earth with the Sun and star layers composited. The individual layers are available below.
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Domemaster Earth and orbits layer
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Domemaster sun layer
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Domemaster star layer

Visualization Credits

Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Ernie Wright (USRA): Animator
Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Animator
Thomas Lucas (Thomas Lucas Productions): Producer
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Mission:
Terra

Data Used:
Terra and Aqua/MODIS/Blue Marble: Next Generation also referred to as: BMNG
Credit:
The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
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Hipparcos/Telescope/Tycho 2 Catalogue also referred to as: Tycho Catalogue
Database
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CelesTrak Spacecraft Orbit Ephemeris
Ephemeris - 2010/02/03 - 2010/02/06
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This item is part of these series:
Dome Show Planetarium
Dynamic Earth Dome Show

Keywords:
SVS >> Orbit
NASA Science >> Earth
SVS >> Planetarium