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FROZEN: A Spherical Movie About the Cryosphere
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Released on March 27, 2009, FROZEN is NASA's second major production for the Science On a Sphere platform, a novel cinema-in-the-round technology developed by the Space Agency's sibling NOAA. Viewers see the Earth suspended in darkness as if it were floating in space. Moving across the planet's face, viewers see the undulating wisps of clouds, the ephemeral sweep of fallen snow, the churning crash of shifting ice, and more. FROZEN brings the Earth alive. Turning in space, the sphere becomes a portal onto a virtual planet, complete with churning, swirling depictions of huge natural forces moving below. FROZEN features the global cryosphere, those places on Earth where the temperature doesn't generally rise above water's freezing point. As one of the most directly observable climate gauges, the changing cryosphere serves as a proxy for larger themes. But just as thrilling as this unusual--and unusually realistic--look at the planet's structure and behavior is the sheer fun and fascination of looking at a spherically shaped movie. FROZEN bends the rules of cinema, revealing new ways to tell exciting, valuable stories of all kinds. The movie may be FROZEN, but the experience itself rockets along.
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Designed exclusively for playback on spherical projections surfaces, FROZEN introduces mainstream audiences to the cryosphere--places on Earth where the temperatures don't rise above water's freezing point. The following trailer showcases some of the visual themes contained in the movie and points to the film's main website. This film has been prepared exclusively for playback on spherical projections systems. It will not appear in its proper format on a traditional computer or television screen. If you are interested in dowloading the complete final movie file for spherical playback, please visit : ftp://public.sos.noaa.gov/extras/
Duration: 58.0 seconds
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Animation Number: | 10403 |
Completed: | 2009-03-27 |
Animators: | Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC) (Lead) |
| Cindy Starr (GST) |
| Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC) |
| Tom Bridgman (GST) |
| Walt Feimer (HTSI) |
| Ivy Flores (UMBC) |
| Andrej Bevec (UMBC) |
Editor: | Vicky Weeks (HTSI) |
Producer: | Michael Starobin (HTSI) |
Scientists: | Bob Bindschadler (NASA/GSFC) |
| Waleed Abdalati (NASA/GSFC) |
| Thorsten Markus (NASA/GSFC) |
Supports: | Shane Keating (GST) |
| Jennifer Lentz (HTSI) |
| Rich Melnick (HTSI) |
| Tatyana N. Pokrovskaya (HTSI) |
Videographers: | Vicky Weeks (HTSI) |
| Ed Weibe (HTSI) |
| Pat Izzo (TRAX International Corp.) |
| Chris Smith (HTSI) |
Writers: | Michael Starobin (HTSI) |
| Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC) |
Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets: | Circum-Arctic Map of Permafrost and Ground-Ice Conditions
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| World Glacier Inventory |
| DMSP/OLS/Earth at Night |
| Terra and Aqua/MODIS/Blue Marble Land Cover |
| Landsat-7/ETM+/Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica |
| Glacier Inventory of West Greenland |
| Antarctic Digital Database, The |
| GLIMS Glacier Database |
| North American Atlas |
| Groundwater Resources of the World |
Goddard TV Tape: | G2008-103 -- FROZEN |
Keywords:
DLESE
>> Cryology
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>> Earth Science
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>> HDTV
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>> Ice
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>> Infrared
GCMD
>> EARTH SCIENCE
>> Cryosphere
GCMD
>> EARTH SCIENCE
>> Cryosphere
>> Sea Ice
GCMD
>> EARTH SCIENCE
>> Cryosphere
>> Frozen Ground
>> Permafrost
GCMD
>> EARTH SCIENCE
>> Cryosphere
>> Glaciers/Ice Sheets
>> Glaciers
GCMD
>> EARTH SCIENCE
>> Cryosphere
>> Glaciers/Ice Sheets
>> Ice Sheets
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>> Frozen
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>> Sea Level
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Please give credit for this item to CREDITS Written, Produced and Directed by Michael Starobin and Horace Mitchell Based on a presentation by Dr. Robert Bindschadler/GSFC Edited by Victoria Weeks Narrated by Craig Sechler Music by Andre Gribou Script development team Michael Starobin Horace Mitchell Victoria Weeks Greg Shirah Cindy Starr The Scientific Visualization Studio/NASA GSFC Director of Data Visualization Horace Mitchell Visualization Team Cindy Starr Lori Perkins Tom Bridgman Greg Shirah Software Development Greg Shirah Eric Sokolowsky Animation Ivy Flores Andrej Bevec Walt Feimer Set Construction and Practical Effects Chris Meaney Stop Action Photography Pat Izzo Infrared Videography Ed Weibe Videography Chris Smith Victoria Weeks Studio Crew Shane Keating Richard Melnick Jennifer Lentz Tatyana Pokrovskaya Sound Design Michael Starobin Audio Engineering and Assistant to the Composer Eric Arvai Recording Engineer Mike Velle Account Management Mike Velle IT Management Pankaj Jaiswal Stuart Snodgrass Jim Williams Science On a Sphere Project Liaison Maurice Henderson Photographic Research Eric Erbe Production Photography Debora McCallum Pat Izzo Voice Casting Sandy Stern Casting, LLC Cast Mara Bayewitz Chris Meaney Andy Freeberg Helen-Nicole Kostis Scientific Consultants Dr. Bob Bindschadler, GSFC Dr. Waleed Abdalati, CIRES/CSES Dr. Thorsten Markus, GSFC Dr. Richard S. Williams, Jr., USGS Antarctica Video PolarPalooza/Passport to Knowledge Ilulissat Glacier Sequence Jason Amundson, University of Alaska Fairbanks Glacier Images provided by Mike Embree The National Science Foundation W. T. Pfeffer, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Dr. Roland Warner Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre and Australian Antarctic Division Permafrost Images provided by F.T. Eyre U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Marilyn Aber U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Michael J. Coffey Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities Data Sources Blue Marble Next Generation seasonal landcover Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC) City lights -- Image and Data processing by NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center from DMSP data collected by the US Air Force Weather Agency. Circum-Arctic map of permafrost and ground-ice conditions: National Snow and Ice Data Center/World Data Center for Glaciology Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica: The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), with funding from The National Science Foundation (NSF) GLIMS glacier database: Armstrong, R., B. Raup, S.J.S. Khalsa, R. Barry, J. Kargel, C. Helm, and H. Kieffer, National Snow and Ice Data Center World glacier inventory: World Glacier Monitoring Service and National Snow and Ice Data Center/World Data Center for Glaciology West Greenland Glacier Inventory 1992: Andreas Peter Ahlstrøm, Department of Quaternary Geology, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark Groundwater Resources of the World: BGR Hannover / UNESCO Paris 2008 North American Atlas: Government of Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing The Antarctic Digital Database: copyright © 1993-2006 Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research ADDITIONAL THANKS Anker Weidick, Geological Survey of Denmark Richard S. Williams, Jr., United States Geological Survey Charles Swithinbank, British Antarctic Survey The National Snow and Ice Data Center USGS Washington Water Science Center Seth White -- www.sethwhite.org Special thanks to Dr. Ming-Ying Wei NASA Science Mission Directorate Executive Producer for Honeywell Technology Solutions Patrick Kennedy Executive Producer for NASA Television, GSFC Wade Sisler Science On a Sphere was Developed by NOAA FROZEN Cold matters. Copyright © 2009 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center All Rights Reserved |
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