Images of Earth and Space: SC99 Edition
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.
The entire narrated Images video. (NOTE: 79 MB DOWNLOAD)

We begin with a dramatic journey over SC99 host city
Portland and its surroundings.

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

Continuing our flight we come up to Mt. St. Helens.

The SC99 host city Portland, Oregon.

An Overlook of Portland, Oregon.

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.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animators
- Stuart A. Snodgrass (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Randall Jones (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Joseph Jacob (NASA)
- Peggy Li (NASA)
- Marc Pomerantz (NASA)
- Lucian Plesea (NASA/JPL CalTech)
- David Curkendall (NASA/JPL CalTech)
- Terry Cole (NASA)
- Tony Jacob (NASA)
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
- James Collier (NASA)
- Craig Miller (NASA/JPL CalTech)
- Richard Chen (NASA)
- Herb Siegel (NASA/JPL CalTech)
- Werner Benger (NASA)
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Narrator
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Scientists
- David E. Smith (NASA/GSFC)
- Mark Miller (Washington University)
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Writer
- Jarrett Cohen (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Friday, October 15, 1999.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:58 PM EDT.