Images of Earth and Space: The Role of Visualization in NASA Science
This compilation video contains visualizations of Earth and Space Sciences resulting from supercomputer models. The excerpted visualizations include: Ocean Planet, El Niño, Ozone 1991, Clouds, Changes in Glacier Bay, Alaska, Biosphere, Lunar Topography from the Clementine Mission, Musculoskeletal Modeling Dynamic Simulations, Simulations of the Breakup and Dynamical Evolution of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, Convective Penetration in Stellar Interiors, Topological Features of a Compressible Plasma Vortex Sheet: A Model for the Outer Heliospheric Solar Wind, R-Aquarii Jet, The Evolution of Distorted Black Holes, Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in a Supernova, Galaxy Harassment, N-Body Simulation of the Cold Dark Matter Cosmology.
The full, narrated 17-minute Images video
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animators
- Dave Pape (NASA)
- Jim Strong (NASA/GSFC)
- Pamela ONeil (NASA)
- Mark Bajuk (NASA)
- Andy Acuna (Hughes STX)
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Visualizer
- Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Narrator
- Erica Drezek (HTSI)
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Scientists
- Bruce Fryxell (The University of Arizona)
- Edouard Siregar (NASA/GSFC)
- Sanjoy Ghosh (NASA/GSFC)
- Dorothy Hall (NASA/GSFC)
- Janet Chien (NASA/GSFC)
- Gene Feldman (NASA/GSFC)
- William Rossow (NASA/GSFC GISS)
- Alison Walker (NASA/GSFC GISS)
- Compton Tucker (NASA/GSFC)
- David Smith (NASA/GSFC)
- Maria Zuber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Frank Lemoine (NASA/GSFC)
- Gregory Neumann (Johns Hopkins University)
- Kevin Olson (George Mason University)
- Michael Mumma (NASA/GSFC)
- J. Michael Hollis (NASA/GSFC)
- Richard Lyon (NASA/GSFC)
- Marcus Pandy (University of Texas)
- Brian Garner (University of Texas)
- Frank Anderson (University of Texas)
- Peter Anninos (NCSA)
- David Bernstein (NCSA)
- Theresa Brainerd (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
- Benjamin Bromley (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
- Fausto Cattaneo (University of Chicago)
- Anshu Dubey (University of Chicago)
- David Hobill (NCSA)
- Neal Katz (University of Washington)
- Chester Koblinsky (NASA/GSFC)
- George Lake (University of Washington)
- Andrea Malagoli (University of Chicago)
- Ben Moore (University of Washington)
- Peter Mouginis-Mark (University of Hawaii)
- Peter Quinn (Australian National University)
- John Salmon (California Institute of Technology)
- Mark Schoeberl (NASA/GSFC)
- Paul Schopf (NASA/GSFC)
- Courtney Scott (NASA/GSFC)
- Edward Seidel (NCSA)
- Larry Smarr (NCSA)
- Wai-Mo Suen (NCSA)
- Michael Warren (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
- Wojciech Zurek (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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Writer
- Jarrett Cohen (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, February 8, 1996.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 2:00 PM EDT.