Digital Earth Workbench: Magnetospheric Pressure
The Digital Earth Workbench is an interactive application that runs on a SGI Onyx Infinite Reality system and is controlled by an Immersive Workbench, tracked stereo glasses, and a tracked wand. The application allows an unprecedented freedom to roam georeferenced data sets at multiple resolutions and timescales. This animation is one of a series of direct screen captures of the application in operation. The occasional menu appearance denotes direct intervention by the operator to add or delete data or to activate a new control option.
Starting with a view of the magnetosphere of the Earth, a surface of constant plasma pressure is added showing a shield-like configuration due to the pressure from the solar wind
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Steve Maher (NASA/GSFC)
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Scientist
- Dan Spicer (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Friday, November 12, 1999.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:58 PM EDT.