A Short Tour of the Cryosphere

  • Released Saturday, May 20, 2006
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A newer version of this animation is available here.

This narrated, 5-minute animation shows a wealth of data collected from satellite observations of the cryosphere and the impact that recent cryospheric changes are making on our planet. This is a shorter version of a narrated, 7 ½ minute animation entitled 'A Tour of the Cryosphere'.

See the above link for a detailed description of the full animation.

Two sections have been removed from the original animation: one showing a flyby of the South Pole station and glaciers feeding the Ross Ice Shelf and one showing solar data related to the Earth's energy balance.

For more information on the data sets used in this visualization, visit NASA's EOS DAAC website.

The short version of the Cryosphere Tour, with narration and music.

The short version of the Cryosphere Tour, with no narration or labels. (A label-only frame set is also provided.)

The short version of the Cryosphere Tour, with no narration or labels. (A label-only frame set is also provided.)

Credits

Please give credit for this visualization to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Designed by EOSDIS Outreach Team ESDIS Science Operations Office NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Carol Boquist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Jennifer Farnham-Brennan, Global Science and Technology, Inc. Dr. Brian Krupp, Global Science and Technology, Inc.

Directed and Edited by Dr. Horace Mitchell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Written by Jarrett Cohen, Global Science and Technology, Inc. Michael Starobin, Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc.

Narrated by Michael Starobin, Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc.

Audio Engineering by Mike Velle, Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc.

Music by Michael Starobin, Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc.

MODIS Snow and Ice data courtesy of Dr. Dorothy Hall, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Dr. Vince Salomonson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Dr. George Riggs, Science Systems and Applications, Inc.

Arctic Sea Ice data courtesy of the National Snow and Ice Data Center Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences University of Colorado

MODIS Imagery courtesy of the MODIS Land Rapid Response Project NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland Jacques Descloitres, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Jeffrey E. Schmaltz, Science Systems and Applications, Inc.

Blue Marble MODIS data composite courtesy of the MODIS Science Team NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the NASA Earth Observatory Reto Stockli, Science Systems and Applications, Inc.

RADARSAT data courtesy of the Canadian Space Agency

Jakobshavn Ice Velocity data courtesy of Dr. Ian Joughin, University of Washington

QuikSCAT Seawinds data courtesy of the BYU Center for Remote Sensing Dr. David Long, Brigham Young University

Permafrost data courtesy of the United States Geological Survey and the International Permafrost Association

Topography data courtesy of the United States Geological Survey

Cloud data courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Population data courtesy of the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center

SeaWiFS data courtesy of the SeaWiFS Project and GeoEye

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All other data courtesy of NASA

NASA EOSDIS and other EOS data distributed by NASA's Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) http://nasadaacs.eos.nasa.gov

This page was originally published on Saturday, May 20, 2006.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:55 PM EDT.

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