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NASA Hyperwall Science Stories.Pdf NASA Hyperwall Science Stories This brochure represents some of the stories available on NASA’s Hyperwall. For a complete list of Hyperwall stories, and to download content, visit: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/hw Table of Contents Earth Science ..................................................................................................3 Planetary Science ............................................................................................13 Astrophysics ....................................................................................................19 Heliophysics ....................................................................................................28 Earth Science Current Earth Science NASA’s Earth-Observing Fleet: Satellite Missions March 2017 This graphic shows NASA’s current fleet This visualization shows the orbits of NASA’s of Earth-observing satellite missions. Earth-observing satellite missions as of March 2017. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?30065 http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4558 Remotely Sensing Five-Year Global Temperature Our Planet Anomalies from 1880 to 2016 This diagram reveals the variety of remote sensing This visualization illustrates Earth’s long-term platforms used today—offering a multi-scale, warming trend, showing temperature anomaly changes multi-resolution view of our planet. from 1880 to 2016 as a rolling five-year average. http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30892 http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4546 Earth: From Observations A System of Systems to Models This visualization reveals that the Earth system, This visualization shows how models ingest different like the human body, comprises diverse observation types. Scientists study how these observations are components that interact in complex ways. alike, how they differ, and how they interact with each other. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30701 svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=30590 3 Blue Marble Black Marble 2015 2016 This composite image, captured by Suomi NPP’s This image of Earth at night in 2016 was created Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, shows how with data from the Suomi NPP satellite. Earth looked from space on October 14, 2015. http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30876 svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30763 From a Million Miles Away, NASA Weekly Animation of Arctic Sea Ice Age: Camera Shows Moon Crossing Face of Earth 1984-2016 This image series shows the far side This visualization shows the age of of the Moon, illuminated by the Sun, as it the sea ice between 1984 and 2016. crossed between DSCOVR and Earth. http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4522 svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=11971 Annual Arctic Sea Ice Minimum OMG Maps Greenland 1979-2016 with Area Graph Sea Floor Depth A visualization of the annual minimum This image shows a region off the coast of northwest Arctic sea ice from 1979 to 2016 with a graph overlay. Greenland mapped as part of the fall 2015 campaign of NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland mission. http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4573 svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30767 4 Greenland Ice Loss, Antarctica Ice Loss, 2002 to 2016 2002 to 2016 These images, created with GRACE data, show These images, created with GRACE data, show changes in Greenland ice mass between 2002 and 2016. changes in Antarctic ice mass between 2002 and 2016. http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30879 http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30880 Antarctic Landsat “Sees in the Dark” the Ice Flow Evolution of Antarctica’s Delaware-Sized Iceberg This visualization shows the velocity The Thermal Infrared Sensor on Landsat 8 captured of ice on Antarctica representing hundreds this snap of the 2,240-square-mile iceberg that calved from the to thousands of years of motion. Antarctic Peninsula’s Larsen C ice shelf on July 10-12, 2017. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3848 http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30890 Sea-Surface Temperatures The Motions of in Ultra-High Resolution the Ocean This animation from January 1, 2010 to Scientists use model simulations like this one from December 31, 2011, shows global sea surface March 25, 2007 to March 3, 2008 to help resolve ocean eddies and temperatures at 1-kilometer (~0.6 mile) resolution. other narrow-current systems that transport heat in Earth’s ocean. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?30008 svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3912 5 22-Year Aquarius Sea Surface Sea Level Rise Salinity 2011-2014 This visualization shows total sea level change This visualization celebrates over three years of between 1992 and 2014, based on data collected from the successful Aquarius sea surface salinity observations. TOPEX/Poisedon, Jason-1, and Jason-2 satellites. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?4233 svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4345 Global Sea Surface Ocean Surface Carbon Dioxide Temperature and Winds Flux with Wind Stress This visualization shows the directional flow and magnitude of This animation shows results from the ECCO2- Darwin surface wind-vector data (calibrated to a 10 meter reference height) ocean carbon cycle model, which was developed as part of from June 1, 2011 to October 31, 2011. the NASA Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) Flux Project. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4240 svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4398 Modeled Phytoplankton MODIS Communities in the Global Ocean Ocean Bioproductivity This visualization shows dominant phytoplankton This visualization, derived using data from NASA’s MODIS types from 1994-1998 generated by the Darwin Project instrument, shows a daily running weighted 31-day average of using a high-resolution ocean and ecosystem model. sea surface chlorophyll from January 2010 through May 2016. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?30669 svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30786 6 2015 El Niño Disrupts Sea Surface Temperature and Ocean Chlorophyll Anomalies During the 2015-16 El Niño These images compare monthly sea surface temperature These maps, showing sea surface temperature and sea surface anomalies (SSTA) and surface chlorophyll concentrations during temperature anomalies, reveal the progression of the strong 2015-16 El Niño (December 2015) and La Niña (December 1999). El Niño event from January 1, 2015 to January 2, 2016. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30747 svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?30748 El Niño Painting the Precipitation Anomaly World with Water The top visualization shows rainfall This visualization shows the GPM constellation amounts, while the bottom visualization shows in action, revealing precipitation measurements rainfall anomalies during El Niño. underneath each satellite orbit. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30766 svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4283 Near-Real-Time Global Rainfall-Triggered Landslides Global Precipitation and Global Precipitation from IMERG Shown here, the global IMERG precipitation dataset This visualization shows rainfall-triggered landslides (generated using data from the GPM mission) provides and precipitation from August and September of 2014. rainfall rates for the entire world every 30 minutes. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4304 svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4285 7 SMAP Sees Soil Moisture CYGNSS and Sea Surface Salinity First Light This visualization compares weekly (8-day average) Three maps show a single pass of the soil moisture and sea surface salinity data from NASA’s SMAP CYGNSS constellation, while a larger image shows mission from April 18-25 through November 15-22, 2015. the full day’s data combined into one image. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?30698 http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30884 A Menacing Line GPM of Hurricanes Examines Hurricane Irma The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Shown here, the GPM Core Observatory satellite Suomi NPP satellite captured the data for a mosaic of Katia, Irma, had an exceptional view of hurricane Irma’s eye and Jose as they appeared in the early hours of September 8, 2017. when it flew above it on September 5, 2017. http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30898 http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4584 Three Consecutive Swaths of Data, Harvey Floods Texas Three Different Hurricanes and Threatens Louisiana Shown here, on September 7, 2017, hurricanes The GPM Core Observatory captured these images Katia (Category 1), Irma (Category 5), and of hurricane Harvey, August 27-30, 2017. Jose (Category 3) lined up across the Atlantic basin. http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4458 http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30897 8 Monitoring Hurricane Matthew Hurricane Matthew Rainfall Totals This visualization shows various This visualization shows the amount of rainfall dropped ways NASA observes hurricanes. by Hurricane Matthew over the life and track of the storm from September 28 – October 10, 2016, using IMERG data. http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4543 http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30833 Hurricane Sandy Carbon Dioxide from GMAO Surface Winds using Assimilated OCO-2 Data This animation shows hurricane Sandy surface wind speeds This visualization provides a high-resolution, from the GEOS-5 beginning September 1, 2012. three-dimensional view of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations from September 1, 2014 to August 31, 2015. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?30019 http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4514 Assimilation of OCO-2 Carbon Dioxide Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide into the GEOS Simulation with Mauna Loa Overlay This visualization starts by showing carbon dioxide values This visualization shows monthly average concentrations of being measured by the OCO-2 sensor. Then the total carbon dioxide mid-tropospheric carbon dioxide from 2000 to 2014 based from the GEOS simulation is shown under the OCO-2 data. on data collected by the Aqua/AIRS instrument. http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4519 svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?4184 9 Simulated Atmospheric A Year of Global Carbon Carbon Concentrations Dioxide Measurements This visualization, created using data from the 7-km GEOS-5 This animation shows column-averaged Nature Run model, shows average column concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, from atmospheric carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in 2006. September 2014 to August 2015, observed by OCO-2. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?30515 svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?4402 U.S. Air Quality The Air We Improvement Breathe This visualization shows tropospheric column concentrations This sequence of daily images from September 1, 2009 to of nitrogen dioxide across the U.S.
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