Earth Today 1998 Countdown

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech, United States Geological Survey, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Global Processing Center for International Satellite, Cloud Climatology Project, World Climate Research Program, NASA/Stennis Space Center, Naval Oceanographic Office and Northrop Grumman/DSSD, United States Naval Research Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program, United States Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Service, National Earthquake Information Center, US Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Geophysical Data Center, University of Wisconsin, Space Science and Engineering Center, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, The SeaWiFS Project and ORBIMAGE, Scientific Visualization Studio. NOTE: All SeaWiFS images and data presented on this web site are for research and educational use only. All commercial use of SeaWiFS data must be coordinated with ORBIMAGE (http://www.orbimage.com).

Earth Today 1998 Countdown

The ability to see Earth from space has forever changed our view of the planet. We are now able to look at the Earth as a whole, and observe how its atmosphere, oceans, land masses, and life interact as global systems. Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere are dynamic, changing on timescales of days, minutes, or even seconds. Monitoring the Earth in near real time allows us to get an up to date picture of conditions on our planet. More SVS visualizations for the Earth Today exhibit are in animation ids 1401 and 1402.

Countdown Animation

Metadata

  • Sensor

    NOAA-15 POES/AVHRR, TDRSS/TRITON Array, OrbView-2/SeaWiFS, No Satellite/Seismic Recording Networks, DMSP/OLS

  • Animation ID

    328

  • Video ID

    SVS1998-0020

  • Start Timecode

    0:00:00:00

  • End Timecode

    0:13:00:00

  • Animator

    Alex Kekesi, Wendy Shoan

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Writer

    Tom Watters

  • Narrator

    James Earl Jones, Erica Drezek

  • Visualization Date

    1998/10/20

  • Scientist

    Tom Watters (Smithsonian/Air and Space)

  • Datasets

    Biosphere, Cloud Cover, Sea Surface Temperature, Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly, Water Vapor, NDVI, Earthquakes

  • Keywords

    Mars, SST, SST Anomaly, Venus

  • DLESE Subject

    Natural hazards, Climatology, Space science, Physical oceanography, Atmospheric science, Human geography, Biological oceanography, Geology, Hydrology

  • Data Date

    Various

  • Story URL

    http://www.nasm.si.edu/earthtoday/

  • Animation Type

    Production