Animation created by:
Produced at:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
and
University of Illinois at Chicago
Electronic Visualization Laboratory
The following data sets were used to produce this animation:
Stars:
Earth from Space:
AVHRR Pathfinder Composite (land)
Coastal Zone Color Scanner (ocean)
Geostationary Meteorological Satellite (cloud)
Satellite Model:
Navstar model - NAWCWPNS, China Lake, CA
Ship/Submarine/ROV Models:
Hawaiian Topography:
US Geological Survey Digital Elevation Model
3 second resolution, 2x vertical exaggeration
Hawaiian Surface Texture:
Landsat Thematic Mapper Image courtesy of
Peter Mouginis-Mark (University of Hawaii)
Submarine Bathymetry:
ETOPO5 5 minute gridded data provided by
NOAA/National Geophysical Data Center
10x vertical exaggeration
Marine Life Models/Images:
Information about how this animation was produced:
Number of Frames in Animation:
Total Volume of Images Rendered:
1.1 gigabytes final frames
(2.2 gigabytes/original fields)
Time Required to Render:
approximately 60 cpu hours
Rendered on:
Animation Software:
All custom software written by
Ocean Planet Exhibition Floorplan
gene carl feldman (gene@seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov) (301) 286-9428
Judith Gradwohl, Smithsonian Institution (Curator/Ocean Planet)