Salt Lake City Utah: Rice-Eccles Olmpic Stadium Zoom In w/ Spin and Night Lights

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Great Zoom into Salt Lake City, UT: Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium (with Spin and Night Lights)

Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at the Goddard Space Flight Center present you with a collection of American cities in a way you have never seen them before. Starting with our camera high above the Earth, we rush in towards the surface at what would be an impossible speed for any known vehicle. Passing though layers of atmosphere, the colors of our destinations shimmer with their own unique characteristics, and suddenly we find ourselves floating in virtual space just above the ground.

A seamless zoom, starting with a spin of the Earth showing city lights in the darkness behind a terminator, then moving from space to the ground, using data from Terra/MODIS, Landsat/ETM+, and IKONOS, and ending at the Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium in Salt Lake City, UT.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS, DMSP/OLS

  • Animation ID

    2377

  • Video ID

    SVS2002-0007

  • Start Timecode

    01:13:25:00

  • End Timecode

    01:16:22:00

  • Animator

    Greg Shirah, Horace Mitchell, Marte Newcombe

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2002/02/01

  • Scientist

    Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC)

  • Keywords

    Zoom, Salt Lake City, Olympics

  • DLESE Subject

    Human geography, Physical geography

  • Data Date

    Terra/MODIS: 2000/12/06, Landsat-7/ETM+: 2001/01/23, IKONOS: 2000/03/22

  • Animation Type

    Regular