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Visualization of smoke and other aerosols on globe

Planet on Fire

03.07.2013
Combining observations from the MODIS instruments onboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites with the GEOS-5/GOCART atmosphere model reveals fire's global reach.
Abstract: This image compresses the Vela movie sequence into a single snapshot

Fermi's Motion Produces a Study in Spirograph

02.27.2013
A Fermi scientist has transformed LAT data of a famous pulsar into a mesmerizing movie that visually encapsulates the spacecraft's complex motion.
Map of U.S. Fires 2012

NASA Looks at the U.S. Fires of 2012

12.12.2012
Records maintained by the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) and NASA both indicate that 2012 was an extraordinary year for wildfires in the United States.
frame from black hole merger simulation

Simulations Uncover 'Flashy' Secrets of Merging Black Holes

09.27.2012
Scientists use simulations to investigate what kind of "flash" might be seen by telescopes when astronomers ultimately find gravitational signals from merging black holes.
Visualization of hurricanes and their tracks in the Atlantic Ocean

Simulated Nature Runs its Course

07.31.2012
A NASA Goddard climate model called GEOS-5 revisited the extraordinary 2005 Atlantic hurricane season as part of a gigantic two-year simulation run on Goddard’s Discover supercomputer.
Visualization of coronal mass ejection coming from the sun towards Earth

Computer Graphics Group Selects NASA Earth Visuals for Showcase

06.19.2012
An annual conference that presents and publishes the best in computer graphics and technical research chose a NASA visualization as one of its select entries of 2012.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/releases/2012/12-56.html
Frame from visualization showing evolution of the moon

Two NASA Visualizations Selected for Computer Graphics Showcase

06.19.2012
A NASA computer animation that shows how the sun's heat drives the Earth's swirling winds and ocean currents and a series that tours the lunar surface and the evolution of the moon have been selected by the annual SIGGRAPH conference.
Visualization of Surface Temperature, March 1851 from GISS ModelE2-R

NCCS Makes CMIP5 Data Available

06.12.2012
NASA's data contributions to the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5), as well as reanalysis and observational data, are now available on the NCCS Earth System Grid Federation Gateway.
Visualization of global aerosols: dust, sea salt, sulphate, and black and organic carbon

Paint by Particle

05.24.2012
NASA models and supercomputing have created a colorful new view of aerosol movement. The simulation took several weeks to process on a NASA Center for Climate Simulation supercomputer.
Screen capture from video on ocean currents showing the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic

NASA Takes Marriage of Art and Science to New Heights

04.11.2012
The world's ocean currents have been brought to life in stunning detail by a team of animators at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. (Video: 4:11)
NASA Views Our Perpetual Ocean
photo of goddard network engineers and partners at sc11 meeting

Goddard networking engineers demonstrate the research data superhighway of the future

12.05.2011
A Goddard team carried out a major high-speed networking demo in Seattle at the Supercomputing 2011 (SC11) conference, November 12-18.
High-End Computer Networking (HECN)

Asteroids, Mars and Drought Among NASA News Highlights at AGU

12.01.2011
NASA researchers will present new findings on a wide range of Earth and space science topics at the 2011 fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
Complete list of NASA-related AGU news briefings
diagram of hgh speed networkign demonstration for SC11

NASA and Partners to Demonstrate 40- and 100-Gigabit Network Technologies at SC11

11.10.2011
NASA and a team of federal, university and vendor partners will be demonstrating significant local- and wide-area file transfers using 40- and 100-gigabit-per-second (Gbps) network technologies at SC11, the international conference on high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, November 14-17, 2011.
Screen shot of visualization of fires in Africa

NASA Releases Visual Tour of Earth's Fires

10.19.2011
NASA has released a series of new satellite data visualizations that show tens of millions of fires detected worldwide from space since 2002.
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NASA Movie on Ocean Circulation Gets Visitors in the 'LOOP'

10.04.2011
When balance teeters, movement results. This simple idea is the fuel for a new movie from NASA called LOOP, opening Oct. 6 around the country in Science On a Sphere theaters.
group photo of pat gary and colleagues

In Memory of Pat Gary, NASA Computer Scientist

09.30.2011
Computer networking expert and 43-year Goddard veteran Pat Gary passed away Sept. 15. Colleagues gathered Sept. 30 to celebrate his distinguished career, his many contributions to high-performance computer networking, and the many ways he touched the people who knew him.
Photo of GPU cluster

GPUs Demonstrate Potential for NASA Science Simulations

06.09.2011
NASA Earth and space simulations are getting a boost from graphics processing units (GPUs), with early results on laboratory and NASA Center for Climate Simulation GPU systems demonstrating potential for significant speedups.
photo of discover supercomputer

NCCS Doubles Computational Power For Users

04.28.2011
This month, the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) made available to users the newest unit of its "Discover" supercomputer. The 14,400-processor Dell PowerEdge C6100 server doubles Discover's computational power.
Satellite image of Hurricane Katrina

Hurrican Katrina: A NASA Satellite Retrospective

08.24.2010
In early August 2005, "Katrina" was just a name. By September, it had become synonymous with the costliest tropical cyclone in U.S. history.
photo of Helen-Nicole Kostis

Science Visualizer Creates Earth from Hundreds of Images

06.28.2010
At Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio, Helen-Nicole Kostis works as part of a team that takes raw scientific data and translates it into stunning imagery.
Visualization image of 2010 Sea ice maximum

Arctic 2010 Sea Ice Maximum, Visualized

04.06.2010
This year, Arctic sea ice grew to levels beyond those measured in recent years but slightly below average when compared to the 30-year satellite record.
thumbnail data visualization of north polar ice cap

Piecing Together the Temperature Puzzle

02.23.2010
A new video and image gallery highlight NASA's scientific study of global climate change.
still image from 3-D animation of tropical storm Ida

3-D Video Shows Thunderstorms in Tropical Storm Ida

11.10.2009
NASA computer visualizers used data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite to create a 3-D movie to better see the thunderstorms in Tropical Storm Ida.
still image from animation identifying craters near lunar south pole

Goddard Visualization Team Previews Lunar Impact

10.08.2009
On October 9, LCROSS, a two-ton rocket body, will slam into a crater near the moon's south pole. A scientific visualization team at Goddard helped determine how the resulting debris plume will look from Earth.
still image from animation about arctic sea ice cover

Arctic Sea Ice Extent is Third Lowest on Record

10.06.2009
This year's satellite measurements show the area of the Arctic Ocean covered by floating ice was the third lowest since satellite measurements were first made in 1979.
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