Earth at night

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

HoloGlobe: Earth at Night

This is one of a series of animations that were produced to be part of the narrated video shown in the HoloGlobe exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and the Earth Today exhibit at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.

A rotating globe showing the visible light sources on the Earth's surface as measured by the DMSP satellites during the 1980s. White dots represent city lights, red dots represent forest fires, and yellow dots represent oil well fires.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    DMSP/OLS

  • Animation ID

    1320

  • Video ID

    SVS1996-0016

  • Start Timecode

    01:17:00:00

  • End Timecode

    01:18:13:00

  • Animator

    Jim Strong

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    1997/04/30

  • Scientist

    Tom Watters (Smithsonian/Air and Space), Woodruff Sullivan (University of Washington)

  • Keywords

    Urban

  • DLESE Subject

    Human geography

  • Data Date

    1972-1989

  • Pao ID

    G97-045

  • Story URL

    http://www.mnh.si.edu/museum/VirtualTour/Tour/First/Hologlobe/

  • Animation Type

    Regular