Mission Proposal: Polar GOES-like Spacecraft (Riding the Spacecraft - Animated Clouds)
This visualization was created to support a mission proposal led by Lars Peter Riishojgaard. This mission would fly a GOES-like spacecraft in a polar elliptical orbit around the Earth providing a large percentage of observing time for northern polar regions. This version of the visualization has the camera riding the orbit as the spacecraft would with GOES clouds animating on the Earth. The clouds are constantly lit so as to provide an infra-red (IR) type of view.
Mission proposal for polar orbiting cloud sensor (with animated clouds)
Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
The Blue Marble Next Generation data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC) and NASA's Earth Observatory.
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Animators
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC)
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Scientist
- Lars Peter Riishojgaard (University of Maryland Baltimore County)
Release date
This page was originally published on Friday, October 1, 2004.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:56 PM EDT.
Series
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[GOES]
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[Terra: MODIS]
ID: 116 -
BMNG (Blue Marble: Next Generation) [Terra and Aqua: MODIS]
ID: 508Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
This dataset can be found at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
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