Skip all navigation and jump to content Jump to site navigation Jump to section navigation.
NASA Logo - Goddard Space Flight Center + Visit NASA.gov
HOME PROJECTS RESOURCES SEARCH MAP

+ Advanced Search
Home
Home
View Most Recently Released Imagery
View Gallery of Imagery: A topical collection of SVS Imagery
Search Imagery by the keywords assigned to it
Search Imagery by the instruments that supplied data for a visualization product
Search Imagery by the series of visualizations that have been produced
Search Imagery by the scientist providing the data used in a visualization product
Search Imagery by the animator that created the product
Search Imagery by the identification number assigned to the visualization product
See other search options
Learn about the SVS Image Server
  + About the Server
  + Animation List
  + How to Use the Server


  + RSS Feeds
  + Podcasts


  + Opportunities
blank image
Previous Animation
Next Animation
Raindrop Acoustics

SMALL RAINDROP ANIMATION - When a small raindrop falls on the ocean, it produces sound underwater by its impact on the ocean surface and, more importantly, by sound created from a bubble trapped underwater during its splash. Different raindrop sizes produce distinctive sounds. When recorded underwater, small raindrops make a sound like a hiss.

The following animation is first simulated as a real-time small raindrop, and then slowed down to demonstrate the distinct sound of impact and the subsequent ring of the higher frequency sound made by the bubble.


This is the standard definition version of the Small Raindrop animation MPEG.    This is the standard definition version of the Small Raindrop animation MPEG.
Duration: 15.0 seconds
Available formats:
  352x240 (29.97 fps) MPEG-1   2 MB
  150x111     JPEG         1 KB
  75x55         JPEG         1 KB
  320x238     JPEG         3 KB
How to play our movies

Animation Number:10052
Completed:2000-02-28
Animator:Susan Twardy (HTSI) (Lead)
Writer:Erica Drezek (HTSI)
Goddard TV Tape:G1999-105
Keywords:
SVS >> Earth Science
SVS >> Gonnelli
SVS >> Precipitation
SVS >> Rain
SVS >> Raindrop
 
 
Please give credit for this item to
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image lab


Back to Top

USA.gov logo - the U.S. Government's official Web portal. + Privacy Policy and Important Notices
+ Reproduction Guidelines
NASA NASA Official:
Content Contact:
Curator: