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Images & Animations
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Credit
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
ICESat First Light Release: A Continuous View of Clouds
The GLAS laser system on ICESat is making unique measurements of the heights of clouds and their global distribution. In addition, ICESat can 'see' the distributions of aerosols from sources such as dust storms and forest fires. This animation shows the distribution of cloud layers as seens from the bird's-eye perspective of the ICESat spacecraft.
ICESat collecting cloud data
Metadata
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Sensor
ICESat/GLAS, Terra/MODIS -
Animation ID
2744 -
Video ID
SVS2003-0015 -
Start Timecode
01:09:00:00 -
End Timecode
01:11:33:09 -
Animator
Greg Shirah, Alex Kekesi -
Studio
SVS -
Visualization Date
2003/05/15 -
Scientist
Chris Shuman (NASA/GSFC), Jay Zwally (NASA/GSFC) -
Datasets
ICESat/GLAS Cloud Height Profile -
Keywords
Clouds, Technology -
DLESE Subject
Atmospheric science, Technology -
Data Date
GLAS: 2003/03/02 -
Copyright Info
Canadian Space Agency, RADARSAT International Inc. -
Animation Type
Regular