Images of Earth and Space: SC99 Edition

  • Released Friday, October 15, 1999

From our home planet to distant neutron stars, this narrated video tape presents recent scientific visualizations of observation and simulation data. We begin with a dramatic journey over SC99 host city Portland and its surroundings. Later explorations accompany the X-33 aerospace plane on its first test flight, witness Mississippi River flooding, and follow global life over 22 months. New views of Mars reveal a basin that could swallow Mount Everest, while a simulation tests how rovers would navigate the red planet's terrain. We conclude with the first-ever supercomputer model producing a black hole from two merging neutron stars.

As we continue our flight over Portland Oregon, we
see Mt. Hood.

As we continue our flight over Portland Oregon, we
see Mt. Hood.

We conclude with the first-ever supercomputer model producing
a black hole from two merging neutron stars.

We conclude with the first-ever supercomputer model producing
a black hole from two merging neutron stars.

Later explorations accompany the X-33 aerospace
plane on its first test flight.

Later explorations accompany the X-33 aerospace
plane on its first test flight.



Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio

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This page was originally published on Friday, October 15, 1999.
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