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Images & Animations
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Credit
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
DC Pan and Zoomout Animation
This spectacular image of the Mall area was acquired on Saturday, April 1, 2000 by Space Imaging's IKONOS sensor. Here we are moving across the Mall, from west to east and we will pause over the Capitol Building. Let's just sit back for a few seconds and enjoy the view. We will then gradually pull back from this highly localized view from space, to obtain a more regional perspective provided by Landsat 7. This regional view permits us to follow the entire length of the Potomac River, from its headwaters in the Shenandoah's, until it flows into the Chesapeake Bay. We can also see the full extent of the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays as they flow into the Atlantic. We will continue to pull back farther to obtain more continental and global views of the Earth as provided by a new instrument known as MODIS, or the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, the primary instrument on the Terra spacecraft. Finally, we rotate the Earth so as to see a representation of the Earth's stable light sources, as derived from DMSP satellites. (Note: This animation is a precursor to the Great Zooms. It is based on the same concept and data sources, but is somewhat less polished, particularly in the area of color matching.)
Pan across the mall in Washington, DC using 1 meter resolution IKONOS data, followed by a zoom out to space using 30 meter resolution data from Landsat 7 and 250 meter and 8 kilometer resolution Terra MODIS data. A final rotation of the Earth shows data of stable light sources from DMSP data.
Metadata
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Sensor
Terra/MODIS, DMSP/OLS -
Animation ID
1324 -
Video ID
SVS2000-0027 -
Start Timecode
1:00:35:00 -
End Timecode
1:06:01:22 -
Animator
Michael Mangos, Marte Newcombe -
Studio
SVS -
Visualization Date
2000/09/14 -
Scientist
Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC) -
Keywords
Earth at Night -
DLESE Subject
Human geography, Physical geography -
Data Date
Terra/MODIS: 2000/03/06, Landsat: 1999/05/11, IKONOS: 2000/04/01 -
Story URL
stories/nasm/land.html -
Animation Type
Regular