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Images & Animations
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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
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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