Earth Observing Spacecraft Fleet shot for Dynamic Earth Dome Show
This visualization shows the orbits of NASA's fleet of Earth observing spacecraft. It also includes the International Space Station and Hubble Space Telescope. This was created for a planetarium dome show called Dynamic Earth and is produced in domemaster format (a type of fisheye projection).
The domemaster format was created by rendering 7 separate camera tiles. The tiles were then stitched together to form final domemaster layers at 4096x4096 resolution and 16 bits per channel with premultiplied alpha and no gamma correction. A composite version is provided along with the layers. There are 3 domemaster layers intended to be composited as follows: the Earth and orbits layer over Sun layer over star field (no alpha channel).
NASA's Earth observing fleet orbiting Earth with the Sun and star layers composited. The individual layers are available below.
Domemaster Earth and orbits layer
Domemaster sun layer
Domemaster star layer
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animators
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
- Ernie Wright (USRA)
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Producer
- Thomas Lucas (Thomas Lucas Productions)
Release date
This page was originally published on Tuesday, October 1, 2013.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:51 PM EDT.
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Series
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CelesTrak Spacecraft Orbit Ephemeris
ID: 454This dataset can be found at: http://celestrak.com
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BMNG (Blue Marble: Next Generation) [Terra and Aqua: MODIS]
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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Tycho Catalogue (Tycho 2 Catalogue) [Hipparcos: Telescope]
ID: 550This dataset can be found at: http://archive.eso.org/ASTROM/
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