Winds bear down on the ocean to create surface currents, seen here swirling off the coast of Florida in this NASA-created image, a still capture from a 4-minute excerpt of "Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine," a fulldome, high-resolution movie playing at planetariums around the world.
The excerpt explores the fundamental power of the sun and how its energy drives the climate on Earth, and is made up entirely of new visualizations -- created by NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio -- that illustrate NASA satellite and model data of a coronal mass ejection from the sun, Earth's magnetic fields, and winds and ocean currents circulating around our planet.
To see the full, narrated excerpt, go to: youtu.be/ujBi9Ba8hqs
These visualizations were recently accepted to be shown at the SIGGRAPH 2012 computer animation conference. To read more about this, go to:
www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/dynamic-earth.html
The excerpt was also the basis for the 100th story released through the Scientific Visualization Studio's iPad app, called NASA Visualization Explorer. To see the app story in web form and to download the app, go to:
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Greatguy2007 12 months ago | reply
This is the first time I have seen the ocean Currents. I am thinking why not build an underwater Dam fitted with power generators to use the current flow to create electricity, much like the hover Dam but underwater ? It looks like an untapped energy source to me.
montecani 12 months ago | reply
bella inquadratura. ciao
E' un'immagine molto bella, ci farebbe piacere ammirarla nel nostro gruppo.Grazie.
Excellent image. You would have wish to expose in my group?
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Douglas Remington - Ethereal Light® Photography 12 months ago | reply
Very cool!
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Sunciti _ Sundaram's Images + Messages 12 months ago | reply
Wonderful and Interesting Information. Thank You
ravensoverRio 12 months ago | reply
Greatguy2007... haven't we messed with mother earth enough?
Pyrrhos 12 months ago | reply
Marvelous !
OldTom2009 12 months ago | reply
Love it.
Greatguy2007 12 months ago | reply
What is your idea to meet a growing planet population ?
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dodagp 12 months ago | reply
Great series and work !!!!