Just a start for now. This is very good. NASA has pictures of the "blue marble", CGI. NO PHOTOGRAPHS OF EARTH, PLANETS, SPACE EXISTS. Paintings then CGI.
Artists miss stuff like duplicating clouds. America will be twice the size on a same size globe 4 years apart.
Pictures of Jupiter, exactly the same years later. It's covered in gasses, take your time.
Watch pics of rockets. The artists portray the shadow too, even the booster flames. Flame has no shadow.
What do you do and what is most interesting about your role here at Goddard? How do you help support Goddards mission?
My role is to make imagery from Earth sciences data. I turn data into pictures. I look for new, interesting events that NASAs satellites have seen or that are hidden in the latest data to find anything interesting that shows off NASAs unique capabilities. Finding things is the fun part.
What is the coolest thing youve ever done as part of your job at Goddard?
The last time anyone took a photograph from above low Earth orbit that showed an entire hemisphere (one side of a globe) was in 1972 during Apollo 17. NASAs Earth Observing System (EOS) satellites were designed to give a check-up of Earths health. By 2002, we finally had enough data to make a snap shot of the entire Earth. So we did. The hard part was creating a flat map of the Earths surface with four months of satellite data. Reto Stockli, now at the Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, did much of this work. Then we wrapped the flat map around a ball.My part was integrating the surface, clouds, and oceans to match peoples expectations of how Earth looks from space. That ball became the famous Blue Marble.
I was happy with it but had no idea how widespread it would become. We never thought it would become an icon. I certainly never thought that I would become Mr. Blue Marble.
We have since updated the base maps by increasing the resolution and, for 2004, we made a series of monthly maps.
That is how you get between where I live and where you live.
Here's where you live
Here's where I live. Called the Gleason map, over 1000 years old, revised to meet map laws. The red is the ice ring AI says is 53000 miles, over twice the equator.
Here is how the sun and moon move and cause seasons on my earth. The sun changes from tropic cancer to capricorn for seasons
Here is how the sun and moon move on your earth. Earth spins 1039 mph, circles the sun at 66,600 mph, follows the sun thru the milky way at 500,000 mph and the milky way is moving 2 million mph. But your use to it so you don't feel or notice it, right?
