On-demand Earth Science Visualizations for Education

Read about the Animated Earth.

Preview our visualizations using the Available Animations List.

Learn to use our Web Map Service from the Tutorial.

Access our Web Map Service using http://aes.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/wms?.

Download software to view our visualizations: NASA World Wind.

Browse all the visualizations at the Scientific Visualization Studio.

Animated Earth is part of the

NASA Learning Technologies Project

a technology incubator program promoting the use of innovative technology to deliver NASA content for education.

Table of Contents

Animated Earth Home Page

• Overview
• Tutorial Introduction
• Accessing the Table of Contents
• Asking for an Image
• Asking for an Animation
• Design Considerations - Fixed Size Images
• Design Considerations - Projections
• Styles and Legends
• Metadata - Abstracts and Keywords
• Metadata - Attributions and FGDC Metadata

Appendices

• Animated Earth Requirements
• Animated Earth Standards
• Animated Earth Server Change Log
• Available Animations List
• Animated Earth Project Data Sheet (PDF)