Terrestrial Tour: Is Earth's Ice Thawing?
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Is Earth's ice thawing? There's less sea ice, less permafrost, glaciers are melting faster than ever before. Current evidence says "yes."
Credits
- +Special Thanks: Steve Graham and Claire Parkinson (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) and Edward Olsen (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Produced by: Space Telescope Science Institute, Office of Public Outreach
All images and animations courtesy of NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Except:
- Aqua spacecraft illustration: Reto Stöckli, NASA Earth Observatory team
- Earth’s Western Henisphere “Blue Marble” image: Reto Stöckli/Robert Simmon/NASA/MODIS/USGS/DMSP
- Aqua’s orbit animation: Jesse Allen/NASA
- Earth globe image featuring North America: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio; Blue Marble data courtesy of Reto Stöckli (NASA/GSFC)
- Factory with smoke stack photo: Ian Britton/Freephoto.com
- Earth globe featuring North and Central Americas image: NASA image courtesy GOES Project Science Office
- Caribou with mountains in background photo: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
- Smokestacks at sunset photo: Ian Britton/Freephoto.com
- Field of rapeseed photo: Ian Britton/Freephoto.com
- Global carbon dioxide animation: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Anvil cloud photo: Vanessa Thomas
- Photo of anvil clouds from space: NASA/STS-111
- Clouds at sunrise photo: Vanessa Thomas
- Global images of cloud reflectance and heat transmission: CERES Science Team, NASA Langley Research Center
- Hurricane Alex image: Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
- Cold wakes animation: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
- Maps of ship and buoy sea surface temperature measurements: National Climatic Data Center
- Aqua map of sea surface temperatures on August 1, 2006: Jesse Allen/NASA, based on data from Remote Sensing Systems
- Global sea surface temperature animation: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio: data provided by Norman Kuring (NASA/GSFC)
- Mount Spurr volcanic plume photo: Game McGimsey/Alaska Volcano Observatory/U.S. Geological Survey
Produced by: Space Telescope Science Institute, Office of Public Outreach
All images and animations courtesy of NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Except:
- Mount Saint Helens caldera and plume photo: Austin Post/USGS
- Aqua images of ash plumes from Mount Etna and Klyuchevskaya Volcano: NASA images by Jeff Schmalz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center
- Mount Redoubt eruption plume: R. Clucas/Alaska Volcano Observatory/U.S. Geological Survey
- Dust over the Canary Islands image: Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
- Aqua images of dust over the Persian Gulf and Iraq: Jeff Schmalz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Iraq dust storm photo; Togai Andrews
- Aerial and ground-based fire photos: Andrea Booher/FEMA
- Aqua images of smoke and fire locations in northern California and Boliva: NASA images courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response Team
- Aqua image of smoke and fire locations in Russia: Jesse Allen/Earth Observatory/NASA
- Turbulent clouds photo: NOAA Photo Library, NOAA Central Library: OAR/ERL/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)
- Lightning in Romania photo: Mircea Madau
- Lakeview tornado photo: NOAA Photo Library, NOAA Central Library; OAR/ERL/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)
- Hurricane Katrina image: Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
- Iceberg weather station photo: Peter West/National Science Foundation
- ER-2 research aircraft photo: Jim Ross/NASA
- Map of global precipitable water: AIRS Science Team/NASA/JPL
- Illustration of Aqua spacecraft from below: Reto Stöckli, NASA Earth Observatory
- Maps of global mean temperatures and precipitable water vapor: Stephanie Granger, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Lightning in Kansas photo: Jimmy Dequara, www.australiaservereweather.com
- Global temperatures animation: AIRS Scienct Team/NASA/JPL
- Clouds over snowy mountain landscape photo: Vanessa Thomas
- Written by Vanessa Thomas
- Designed by John Godfrey
- Music courtesy of Associated Production Music
Transcript
- +All narration is presented in text form within the video. In addition, a full transcript will be available in the Library in the near future. Check back soon!