ICESat First Light Release: Following ICESat
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- Visualizations by:
- Greg Shirah
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In this visualization we ride along with the ICESat spacecraft as its laser measures detailed changes in surface topography. This was produced in support of the ICESat first light release.
Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio, Canadian Space Agency, RADARSAT International Inc.
The Blue Marble Next Generation data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC) and NASA's Earth Observatory.
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Animators
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
- Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Scientists
- Christopher Shuman (UMBC JCET)
- Jay Zwally (NASA/GSFC)
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Datasets used in this visualization
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RADARSAT-1
ID: 87Credit: Additional credit goes to Canadian Space Agency, RADARSAT International Inc.
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ICESat L2 Global Cloud Heights for Multi-layer Clouds (GLA09)
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Terra and Aqua BMNG (Blue Marble: Next Generation)
ID: 508Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
This dataset can be found at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
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