You’ve likely seen the classic globe image that shows Earth at night. It’s…
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Holiday lights from space
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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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Making of Perpetual Ocean →
Making of Perpetual Ocean. NASA interview on how they made this; surprisingly, they used Maya and RenderMan
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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…