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The HoloGlobe Project (Version 2)
This animation was produced for the Smithsonian Institution's HoloGlobe Exhibit which opened to the public on August 10, 1996. The various orthographic data sets showing progressive global change were mapped onto a rotating globe and projected into space to create a holographic image of the Earth. Showing Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere are dynamic, changing on timescales of days, minutes, or even seconds. This animation is a revised version of Animation #96 [The Hologlobe Project (Version 1)].

Narrated Hologlobe (version 2)    Narrated Hologlobe (version 2)

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Video ID: SVS1996-0012 *
Animators: Horace Mitchell
Andy Acuna
John Cavallo
Liam Krauss
Jim Strong
Barbara Summey
Brian Tighe
Marit Jentoft-Nilsen
Kannappan Palaniappan
Studio: SVS
Writer: Tom Watters
Narrator: James Earl Jones
Date Completed: October 25, 1996
Duration: 12420 frames, 420.0 seconds
Scientist: Fritz Hasler (NASA/GSFC), Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC), Jim Strong (NASA/GSFC), Tom Watters (Smithsonian/Air and Space)
Instrument: Galileo/Solid-State Imaging Camera, GOES-8, GOES-9, GMS-5, FY-2, Meteosat, TAO/TRITON Array, Seismic Recording Networks, NOAA/AVHRR, Viking, DMSP/OLS
Datasets: Cloud Cover, Sea Surface Temperature, Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly, Topography, Earthquakes, NDVI
Keywords: Mars, Venus, Viking, HoloGlobe, Cloud Cover, SST, SST Anomaly, Topography, Earthquake, NDVI, Night
DLESESubject: Natural hazards, Human geography, Geology, Physical geography, Physical oceanography, Atmospheric science
Data Collected: Various
Animation Series: HoloGlobe and Earth Today



Please give credit for this visualization to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center - Scientific Visualization Studio, Smithsonian Institution, National Science Foundation (NSF), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Global Change Research Project (GCRP), National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA), Dimensional Media Associates (DMA), New York Film and Animation Company, Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI), Hughes STX Corporation


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