We follow our tropical storms like big game hunters on safari, watching as these monsters wake and go on a rampage, close enough to document every single detail, but far enough, hopefully, to never get caught in their path.
This visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through Decmeber 2007. The visualization does not include a narration or annotations; the goal was to use ocean flow data to create a simple, visceral experience.
This visualization was produced using NASA/JPL’s computational model called Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase II or ECCO2.. ECCO2 is high resolution model of the global ocean and sea-ice. ECCO2 attempts to model the oceans and sea ice to increasingly accurate resolutions that begin to resolve ocean eddies and other narrow-current systems which transport heat and carbon in the oceans.The ECCO2 model simulates ocean flows at all depths, but only surface flows are used in this visualization. The dark patterns under the ocean represent the undersea bathymetry. Topographic land exaggeration is 20x and bathymetric exaggeration is 40x.
This visualization was created as a last minute entry for theSIGGRAPH 2011 computer animation festival; however, it was not accepted.
A time lapse sequences of photographs taken with a special low-light 4K-camera by the crew of expedition 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011.
Credits Editing: Michael König, Music: Jan Jelinek – Do Dekor (Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records)
The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) project unites the world’s most advanced observatories, including the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, to make extremely deep observations of the distant Universe, across the electromagnetic spectrum. GOODS gives us a unique view of the formation and evolution of galaxies across cosmic time, by observing two deep fields in the sky. Astronomers used data from Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys to pinpoint target galaxies for further investigation by other telescopes, including ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). In turn, spectrographs on the VLT captured the spectra of these galaxies, spreading out the colours of their light like a rainbow. This let them measure the redshift of their light, and hence how distant they are. An extensive campaign produced redshifts for almost 3000 galaxies. With this knowledge, we can place the galaxies at distances along a vast cone of space, as shown in this visualisation, stretching out from our own vantage point like a searchlight beam into deep space. We can take an amazing journey through a tunnel towards the edge of the Universe. In some places, the galaxies cluster together, forming structures which are up to tens of millions of light years in scale.
Credit:
ESO/L. Calçada/ESO-GOODS team
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