The HoloGlobe Project (Version 3)

  • Released Thursday, August 1, 1996
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These animations were produced for the Smithsonian Institution's HoloGlobe Exhibit which opened to the public on August 10, 1996 at the Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. The various data sets show progressive global change mapped onto a rotating globe and projected into space to create a holographic image of the Earth. The exhibit shows that Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere are dynamic, changing on timescales of days, minutes, or even seconds. The exhibit has since been relocated to the west coast. This is a revised version from Animation #116 [The HoloGlobe Project (version 2)].

The entire 6-minute HoloGlobe video with narration and music

This image represents a one month sample (October 1983) of composite images from cloud cover data collected from a suite of U.S., European, and Japanese geostationary satellites and U.S. polar orbiting meteorological satellites.

This image represents a one month sample (October 1983) of composite images from cloud cover data collected from a suite of U.S., European, and Japanese geostationary satellites and U.S. polar orbiting meteorological satellites.

Orthographic view of cloud data

Orthographic view of cloud data

Water Vapor, NDVI, and SST

Water Vapor, NDVI, and SST

From left to right, top to bottom: Water Vapor, SST, Cloud Cover, and Crustal Dynamics

From left to right, top to bottom: Water Vapor, SST, Cloud Cover, and Crustal Dynamics

Crustal Dynamics showing earthquakes, plate boundaries, and volcanoes simultaneously

Crustal Dynamics showing earthquakes, plate boundaries, and volcanoes simultaneously

Earth view of crustal dynamics

Earth view of crustal dynamics

Crustal Dynamic Globe reflected through virtual mirrors

Crustal Dynamic Globe reflected through virtual mirrors

Earth at Night. Night lights (pictured in white) are from Oct. 1994 to Mar. 1995. Cumulative fire data composited as follows: Fires in Brazil (Sep. 1997 to Oct. 1997), African fires (Oct. 1994 to Mar. 1995), Indonesian fires (Jun. 1997 to Oct. 1997), Austrailian fires (Nov. 1996 to Dec. 1996)

Earth at Night. Night lights (pictured in white) are from Oct. 1994 to Mar. 1995. Cumulative fire data composited as follows: Fires in Brazil (Sep. 1997 to Oct. 1997), African fires (Oct. 1994 to Mar. 1995), Indonesian fires (Jun. 1997 to Oct. 1997), Austrailian fires (Nov. 1996 to Dec. 1996)

Africa at Night

Africa at Night

America at Night

America at Night

Asia at Night

Asia at Night

Pathfinder data

Pathfinder data

Pathfinder data wrapped around a globe

Pathfinder data wrapped around a globe

Earthquakes

Earthquakes

Earthquake data wrapped around globe

Earthquake data wrapped around globe

SST Anomaly data showing the Dec. 1983 El Niño event

SST Anomaly data showing the Dec. 1983 El Niño event

Development of an El Niño event

Development of an El Niño event

Galileo imagery

Galileo imagery

A composite of Galileo imagery in a latitude-longitude projection.

A composite of Galileo imagery in a latitude-longitude projection.

Oceans draining revealing topographic earth

Oceans draining revealing topographic earth

Sequence showing the oceans drain

Sequence showing the oceans drain

Plate Boundaries

Plate Boundaries

Plate Boundaries mapped to a globe

Plate Boundaries mapped to a globe

Sea Surface Temperature (SST): This image is a composite view of the earth in infrared radiation with clouds removed.

Sea Surface Temperature (SST): This image is a composite view of the earth in infrared radiation with clouds removed.

SST data mapped onto a globe

SST data mapped onto a globe

Normalized Differential Vegetation Index (NDVI)

Normalized Differential Vegetation Index (NDVI)

NDVI data showing the changing of the seasons

NDVI data showing the changing of the seasons

Volcanoes

Volcanoes

Volcanoes wrapped on a globe

Volcanoes wrapped on a globe

GOES-9 Water Vapor data

GOES-9 Water Vapor data

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center -
Scientific Visualization Studio,
Smithsonian Institution,
Global Change Research Project (GCRP),
National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA),
United States Geological Survey,
National Science Foundation (NSF),
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),
Dynamic Media Associates (DMA),
New York Film and Animation Company,
Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI),
Hughes STX Corporation

This page was originally published on Thursday, August 1, 1996.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 2:00 PM EDT.

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