Know Your Earth: Earth Observing Fleet Studies Climate
This animated video shares a series of fascinating facts about how climate change affects oceans, land, the atmosphere, and ice sheets around the world. With the help of an animated astronaut touring the Earth, the video explains how NASA's Earth observing satellite fleet enables scientists to gather accurate data and understand those changes.
For complete transcript, click here.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animators
- Ivy Flores (IRC/UMBC)
- Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC)
- Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC)
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Video editors
- Jennifer A. Shoemaker (UMBC)
- Ivy Flores (IRC/UMBC)
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Producers
- Jennifer A. Shoemaker (UMBC)
- Brian Campbell (SAIC)
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Scientists
- Moustafa Chahine (NASA/JPL CalTech)
- Tom Pagano (NASA/JPL CalTech)
- Chris Justice (University of Maryland)
- Jerry Ziemke (NASA/GSFC)
- Inbal Becker Reshef (University of Maryland)
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Writers
- Jennifer A. Shoemaker (UMBC)
- Brian Campbell (SAIC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Friday, July 2, 2010.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:54 PM EDT.
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[Aqua: AMSR-E]
ID: 4For more information, please click http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/AMSR/
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[QuikSCAT: SeaWinds]
ID: 85SeaWinds is a scanning dual pencil-beam Ku-band scatterometer.
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Ozone [Aura: MLS]
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NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)) [Terra and Aqua: MODIS]
ID: 633
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