The New Horizons spacecraft launched on January 19, 2006 and is set to…
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Journey to Pluto
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Life cycle of Earth’s carbon dioxide
The Cartography and Geovisualization Group at Oregon State University and NASA visualized a…
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Mapping ice layers with radar data
I don’t know exactly how much data NASA has in the bank, but…
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The first photo of the United States by NASA satellite
In 1974, NASA published their first satellite photo of the contiguous United States…
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Holiday lights from space
You’ve likely seen the classic globe image that shows Earth at night. It’s…
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What Antarctica looks like underneath the ice
Based largely on satellite data and the results of an airborne data collection…
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A high resolution tour of the vegetation on Earth
NOAA visualized global vegetation over a year, and the result is beautiful:
We’ve…
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Earth as Art book from NASA
The Earth as Art is a compilation of NASA satellite imagery that shows…
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How NASA visualizes large datasets
Horace Mitchell, director of the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio discusses the process behind…
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Perpetual Ocean
Using a computational model called Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean,…
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NASA maps a decade of fires, a global tour
Using satellite data that goes back to 2002, NASA maps tens of millions…
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Where people don’t use Facebook
Remember the Facebook connections map from a while back? It showed digital friendships…
