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Most Recently Released Print Images Produced by the SVS as of 2009-01-19


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The Arctic sea ice on February 25, 2007.
Completed: 2008-12-11
ID Number: 3571
globalRotationWice2_FINAL4_V13_Still3.1618.tif
globalRotationWice2_FINAL4_V13_Still3.1618_web.png 		The Arctic sea ice on March 18, 2007.
Completed: 2008-12-11
ID Number: 3571
globalRotationWice2_FINAL4_V14_still1.0544.tif
globalRotationWice2_FINAL4_V13_Still2.0544_web.png
The Arctic sea ice on September 14, 2007.
Completed: 2008-12-11
ID Number: 3571
globalRotationWice2_FINAL4_V14_still3Final.1819.tif
globalRotationWice2_FINAL4_V14_still3Final.1819_web.png 		The Arctic sea ice on March 2, 2008.
Completed: 2008-12-11
ID Number: 3571
globalRotationWice2_FINAL4_V13_Still.1989.tif
globalRotationWice2_FINAL4_V13_Still.1989_web.png
The Arctic sea ice on March 26, 2008.
Completed: 2008-12-11
ID Number: 3571
globalRotationWice2_FINAL4_V14_still2.0918.tif
globalRotationWice2_FINAL4_V13_Still4.0918_web.png 		The movie opens on the date of November 1, 2006, with a view of the inner Solar System. We see the Sun, as well as the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth (in blue) and Mars. We zoom in towards the Earth.
Completed: 2008-12-10
ID Number: 3570
helioFleet_still.00000.tif
helioFleet_still.00000_web.png
As we approach the Earth, we get a wide view of the spacecraft located at L1 as well as the Earth nestled within the magnetosphere. The magnetosphere forms due to the interaction of the Earth's geomagnetic field with the plasma of the solar wind. Solar wind pressure drags the magnetosphere back from the Earth, away from the Sun, much like a 'wind sock'. For convenience, arrows remind us of the direction of the Sun (yellow) and the direction that the Earth travels along its orbit (blue).
Completed: 2008-12-10
ID Number: 3570
helioFleet_still.00780.tif
helioFleet_still.00780_web.png 		Moving closer to the Earth, we see the orbit of the Moon. We also see the orbits of several spacecraft in the region between the Earth and the Moon's orbit.
Completed: 2008-12-10
ID Number: 3570
helioFleet_still.01440.tif
helioFleet_still.01440_web.png
We fly throught the boundary of the magnetosphere for a closeup view of the Earth (note that the clouds are changing, updating based on weather satellite imagery from this time). We also see the orbits of heliofleet satellites that occupy near-Earth orbit. Here, the fleet include not only Earth-observing missions like TIMED and FAST, but solar observatories as well: TRACE, RHESSI, and Hinode.
Completed: 2008-12-10
ID Number: 3570
helioFleet_still.02334.tif
helioFleet_still.02334_web.png 		Now we begin to pull out for a wider view of the geospace region...
Completed: 2008-12-10
ID Number: 3570
helioFleet_still.02800.tif
helioFleet_still.02800_web.png
Passing back through the boundary of the magnetosphere, we can now see the satellites, Geotail and Cluster, that patrol this region measuring the particles and fields. Cluster (actually Cluster II), is a group of four identical satellites that fly in formation through this region.
Completed: 2008-12-10
ID Number: 3570
helioFleet_still.04600.tif
helioFleet_still.04600_web.png 		As we continue our pull-out, we see the two STEREO satellites, STEREO-A and B, shortly after launch, while still in their post-launch phasing orbit which travels from the Earth to the orbit of the Moon.
Completed: 2008-12-10
ID Number: 3570
helioFleet_still.05412.tif
helioFleet_still.05412_web.png
Here we get a geospace family portrait: the Earth and Moon, as well as the satellites Cluster, Geotail, and STEREO-A and B.
Completed: 2008-12-10
ID Number: 3570
helioFleet_still.07056.tif
helioFleet_still.07056_web.png 		The spacecraft STEREO-A and B make their first lunar flyby, using the Moon for a gravity-assist. For STEREO-A, the flyby transfers enough momentum to send the satellite into a solar orbit, slightly closer to the Sun than the Earth. From this orbit, STEREO-A becomes STEREO-Ahead as it begins to move ahead relative to the Earth in its orbit.
Completed: 2008-12-10
ID Number: 3570
helioFleet_still.08364.tif
helioFleet_still.08364_web.png
The Moon completes another orbit before it encounters STEREO-B for its second lunar flyby. This encounter sends STEREO-B into an orbit further from the Sun than the Earth, where STEREO-B will become STEREO-Behind as it drops behind the Earth in relative position along its orbit.
Completed: 2008-12-10
ID Number: 3570
helioFleet_still.09970.tif
helioFleet_still.09970_web.png 		From a vantage point 'above' and 'behind' the Earth, we look sunward to the three spacecraft that 'orbit' around an empty point in space - the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point, L1.
Completed: 2008-12-10
ID Number: 3570
helioFleet_still.10440.tif
helioFleet_still.10440_web.png
Now we take a spin around the L1 point, observing SOHO, ACE, and Wind as they execute their trajectories around this location. Because L1 is actually an unstable point, the spacecraft need occasional trim maneuvers to maintain their location. We speed up time as we orbit, also noting that the L1 point seems to execute small oscillations in the yellow Earth-Sun marker. These oscillations are due to the gravitational tug of the Moon as it orbits the Earth. After spending over a year at L1, we return to the Earth to see what is new...
Completed: 2008-12-10
ID Number: 3570
helioFleet_still.11200.tif
helioFleet_still.11200_web.png 		Returning to the geospace around the Earth, we see a new mission has come on the scene - THEMIS, with five identical spacecraft, travel in a series of aligned elliptical orbits to sample the Earth's magnetotail at different distances.
Completed: 2008-12-10
ID Number: 3570
helioFleet_still.14120.tif
helioFleet_still.14120_web.png
We continue our approach to Earth, and observe the region patrolled by THEMIS, the five satellites designated with the letters A through E.
Completed: 2008-12-10
ID Number: 3570
helioFleet_still.15200.tif
helioFleet_still.15200_web.png 		Passing through the magnetosphere again, we see two new missions in near-Earth orbit: C/NOFS carries the CINDI instrument for observing the ionosphere while AIM observes noctilucent clouds.
Completed: 2008-12-10
ID Number: 3570
helioFleet_still.16600.tif
helioFleet_still.16600_web.png
Finally, we pull out from the Earth, traversing the space covered many years ago by the Pioneers and Voyagers...
Completed: 2008-12-10
ID Number: 3570
helioFleet_still.18600.tif
helioFleet_still.18600_web.png 		Two light blue paths appear, terminating on the orbit of the Earth. They represent the trajectories of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, launched in September and August, respectively, of 1977.
Completed: 2008-12-10
ID Number: 3570
helioFleet_still.19800.tif
helioFleet_still.19800_web.png
We see the changes in the trajectories of the Voyagers as they cross the orbits of the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn. With the Saturn encounter, Voyager 1 is sent out of the plane of the Solar System, called the Ecliptic.
Completed: 2008-12-10
ID Number: 3570
helioFleet_still.20048.tif
helioFleet_still.20048_web.png 		Voyager 2 continued in the Ecliptic, making historic flybys of the planets Uranus and Neptune, The Neptune flyby is used to direct Voyager 2 below the Ecliptic, enabling it to explore a different region than Voyager 1.
Completed: 2008-12-10
ID Number: 3570
helioFleet_still.20480.tif
helioFleet_still.20480_web.png
It is now believed that both Voyagers have crossed the termination shock for the helipause, the innermost boundary that separates the environment of our Solar System from the interstellar medium.
Completed: 2008-12-10
ID Number: 3570
helioFleet_still.21034.tif
helioFleet_still.21034_web.png 		The heliopause and the bowshock are the two remaining 'surfaces' for the Voyagers to cross, the regions defined by characteristics of the solar wind's interaction with the interstellar medium. The transmitters on the Voyagers are expected to still be operating when they cross the heliopause, estimated to be around 2015.
Completed: 2008-12-10
ID Number: 3570
helioFleet_still.23002.tif
helioFleet_still.23002_web.png
We start out looking along the line of Earth's magnetotail for a view of the Sun, the Earth, and the orbit of the Moon.
Completed: 2008-12-09
ID Number: 3569
THEMISb_2560x1440.0000.tif
THEMISb_2560x1440.0000_web.png 		Moving Earthward, just outside the boundary of the magnetosphere, we move to a position above the Moon's orbital plane.
Completed: 2008-12-09
ID Number: 3569
THEMISb_2560x1440.0268.tif
THEMISb_2560x1440.0268_web.png
We move closer to the Earth.
Completed: 2008-12-09
ID Number: 3569
THEMISb_2560x1440.0448.tif
THEMISb_2560x1440.0448_web.png 		Now we get a view of the Earth and the orbits of the five THEMIS spacecraft. The yellow arrow reminds us of the direction to the Sun (which determines the direction of the magnetosphere).
Completed: 2008-12-09
ID Number: 3569
THEMISb_2560x1440.0775.tif
THEMISb_2560x1440.0775_web.png
We move in a little closer to better observe the satellites as their orbits carry them in and out of the magnetosphere. This enables them to sample particles and fields in the solar wind outside the magnetsphere and their effects on the magnetosphere as well.
Completed: 2008-12-09
ID Number: 3569
THEMISb_2560x1440.0900.tif
THEMISb_2560x1440.0900_web.png 		The spacecraft move back into the magnetosphere towards perigee...
Completed: 2008-12-09
ID Number: 3569
THEMISb_2560x1440.1264.tif
THEMISb_2560x1440.1264_web.png
and then pass back into the solar wind...
Completed: 2008-12-09
ID Number: 3569
THEMISb_2560x1440.1567.tif
THEMISb_2560x1440.1567_web.png 		Another orbit completed...
Completed: 2008-12-09
ID Number: 3569
THEMISb_2560x1440.1800.tif
THEMISb_2560x1440.1800_web.png
Annual Arctic Sea Ice Minimum from 1979 to 2008.
Completed: 2008-10-27
ID Number: 3563
print2008SeaIceEarthGraphSequence.1933.tif
print2008SeaIceEarthGraphSequence.1933_web.png
print2008SeaIceEarthGraphSequence.1933_gal.png
print2008SeaIceEarthGraphSequence.1933_thm.png
2008SeaIceSequencesparta1280x720_30.mp4
2008SeaIceSequence512x288_30.mpg
frames/1280x720_16x9_30p/
frames/1280x720_16x9_60p/ 		Overlay sequence: graph showing annual trend from 1979 to 2008.
Completed: 2008-10-27
ID Number: 3563
print2008SeaIceGraph.1933.tif
print2008SeaIceGraph.1933_web.png
2008SeaIceGraphSequencesparta1280x720_30.mp4
2008SeaIceGraphSequence512x288_30.mpg
frames/1280x720_16x9_30p_graphOverlay/
frames/1280x720_16x9_60p_graphOverlay/
Minimum Sea Ice Sequence with Date Overlay from 1979 to 2008.
Completed: 2008-10-27
ID Number: 3563
print2008SeaIceEarthDatesSequence.1933.tif
print2008SeaIceEarthDatesSequence.1933_web.png
frames/1280x720_16x9_60p_dateSeaIceMinimum/
frames/1280x720_16x9_30p_dateSeaIceMinimum/
2008SeaIceEarthDatesSequence512x288_30.mpg
2008SeaIceEarthDatesSequencesparta1280x720_30.mp4 		Minimum Sea Ice Sequence from 1979 to 2008. This image is the Arctic sea ice minimum area during the week of September 12, 2008.
Completed: 2008-10-27
ID Number: 3563
print2008SeaIceMinimum.1933.tif
print2008SeaIceMinimum.1933_web.png
2008SeaIceBackgroundSequence512x288_30.mpg
2008SeaIceBackgroundSequencesparta1280x720_30.mp4
frames/1280x720_16x9_30p_minimumSeaIce/
frames/1280x720_16x9_60p_minimumSeaIce/
Date Overlay from 1979 to 2008.
Completed: 2008-10-27
ID Number: 3563
print2008SeaIceDatesSequence.1933.tif
print2008SeaIceDatesSequence.1933_web.png
frames/1280x720_16x9_60p_dates/ 		21 September 1979 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1979
Completed: 2008-10-27
ID Number: 3563
still_seaIce1979_0921.noGraph.tif
still_seaIce1979_0921.noGraph_web.png
05 September 1980 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1980
Completed: 2008-10-27
ID Number: 3563
still_seaIce1980_0905.noGraph.tif
still_seaIce1980_0905.noGraph_web.png 		10 September 1981 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1981
Completed: 2008-10-27
ID Number: 3563
still_seaIce1981_0910.noGraph.tif
still_seaIce1981_0910.noGraph_web.png
17 September 1982 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1982
Completed: 2008-10-27
ID Number: 3563
still_seaIce1982_0917.noGraph.tif
still_seaIce1982_0917.noGraph_web.png 		18 September 1983 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1983
Completed: 2008-10-27
ID Number: 3563
still_seaIce1983_0918.noGraph.tif
still_seaIce1983_0918.noGraph_web.png
16 September 1984 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1984
Completed: 2008-10-27
ID Number: 3563
still_seaIce1984_0916.noGraph.tif
still_seaIce1984_0916.noGraph_web.png 		07 September 1985 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1985
Completed: 2008-10-27
ID Number: 3563
still_seaIce1985_0907.noGraph.tif
still_seaIce1985_0907.noGraph_web.png
06 September 1986 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1986
Completed: 2008-10-27
ID Number: 3563
still_seaIce1986_0906.noGraph.tif
still_seaIce1986_0906.noGraph_web.png 		02 September 1987 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1987
Completed: 2008-10-27
ID Number: 3563
still_seaIce1987_0902.noGraph.tif
still_seaIce1987_0902.noGraph_web.png
12 September 1988 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1988
Completed: 2008-10-27
ID Number: 3563
still_seaIce1988_0912.noGraph.tif
still_seaIce1988_0912.noGraph_web.png 		23 September 1989 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1989
Completed: 2008-10-27
ID Number: 3563
still_seaIce1989_0923.noGraph.tif
still_seaIce1989_0923.noGraph_web.png
19 September 1990 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1990
Completed: 2008-10-27
ID Number: 3563
still_seaIce1990_0919.noGraph.tif
still_seaIce1990_0919.noGraph_web.png 		16 September 1991 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1991
Completed: 2008-10-27
ID Number: 3563
still_seaIce1991_0916.noGraph.tif
still_seaIce1991_0916.noGraph_web.png
04 September 1992 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1992
Completed: 2008-10-27
ID Number: 3563
still_seaIce1992_0904.noGraph.tif
still_seaIce1992_0904.noGraph_web.png 		11 September 1993 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1993
Completed: 2008-10-27
ID Number: 3563
still_seaIce1993_0911.noGraph.tif
still_seaIce1993_0911.noGraph_web.png
05 September 1994 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1994
Completed: 2008-10-27
ID Number: 3563
still_seaIce1994_0905.noGraph.tif
still_seaIce1994_0905.noGraph_web.png 		01 October 1995 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1995
Completed: 2008-10-27
ID Number: 3563
still_seaIce1995_1001.noGraph.tif
still_seaIce1995_1001.noGraph_web.png
10 September 1996 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1996
Completed: 2008-10-27
ID Number: 3563
still_seaIce1996_0910.noGraph.tif
still_seaIce1996_0910.noGraph_web.png 		19 September 1997 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1997
Completed: 2008-10-27
ID Number: 3563
still_seaIce1997_0919.noGraph.tif
still_seaIce1997_0919.noGraph_web.png
12 September 1998 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1998
Completed: 2008-10-27
ID Number: 3563
still_seaIce1998_0912.noGraph.tif
still_seaIce1998_0912.noGraph_web.png 		11 September 1999 Arctic sea ice minimum area for 1999
Completed: 2008-10-27
ID Number: 3563
still_seaIce1999_0911.noGraph.tif
still_seaIce1999_0911.noGraph_web.png

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