Andes Flyover

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Apollo 17 30th Anniversary: Andes Flyover

In conjunction with the 30th Anniversary Apollo 17 mission, NASA put together a special release highlighting one of the most popular photos taken during that mission. The photo (#AS17-148-22727) was taken on Dec. 7, 1972 from the Apollo 17 command module. Over the years, many other satellites have taken imagery of Earth, including Terra/MODIS. This animation uses a global mosaic derived from Terra/MODIS and flys us over the Andes Mountains to celebrate how far Earth science imagery has come since the days of Apollo 17.

Web-resolution beauty shot fly-over animation of the Andes Mountains using the Blue Marble data mosaic.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Animation ID

    2685

  • Video ID

    SVS2002-0029

  • Start Timecode

    01:06:44:00

  • End Timecode

    01:07:49:08

  • Animator

    Alex Kekesi

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2002/11/21

  • Datasets

    Blue Marble

  • Keywords

    wonderglobe

  • Data Date

    2001/06-2001/09

  • Pao ID

    G02-089

  • Animation Type

    Regular