Synthesis: NASA Data Visualizations (2015)
• November 1st, 2015 • 0h 17min
Documentary
Overview
When we feel The Earth beneath our feet, see it with our eyes, hear it when the wind blows, we perceive only the most obvious filaments of a far more complex place. Only with exquisite machines--spacecraft in orbit and powerful computers on the ground--can humanity begin to uncover the elegant nature of our complex home. Presented here are a collection of data visualizations based on observations gathered by a fleet of spacecraft. In various depictions we see the currents of the world's oceans, changes in temperature and land cover over time, and precipitation as it cycles energy and water around our living planet. But The Earth is only one part of a dynamic sphere, and with its companion The Moon nearby, we cannot hlep but remeber that our whole planet travels in a wider ocean. This video presents Earth's Moon with data gathered by the remarkable Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, an advanced probe designed to map our planetary companion in unprecedented detail.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
A Remembering of Disremembering
Released on: 2020-08-07
Documentary
Told through the tales of love of a retiring film projectionist and a late-blooming actress, the sho...
Life in Four Elements
Released on: 2017-03-17
Documentary
A journey into four classical elements through the four main characters of the film. The main charac...
Lunar
Released on: 2017-05-11
Documentary
In the year 1957 the cold war expands to space. The Soviet-Union sends Sputnik as the first manmade ...
The Day the Dinosaurs Died
Released on: 2017-05-15
Documentary, TV Movie
Investigates the greatest vanishing act in the history of our planet - the sudden disappearance of t...
Top Ten Mysteries of Outer Space
Released on: 2022-10-01
Documentary
The wonders of the universe have long propelled our insatiable desire to learn more about who we are...
Edge of Darkness
Released on: 2015-11-01
Documentary
The film features amazing scenes of places never before seen gathered by key space missions that cul...
Comet Collision
Released on: 2006-05-24
Documentary
Comets pose one of the greatest threats to life on Earth - a threat that can only be countered if we...
Shadow Chasers
Released on: 2000-09-23
Documentary
This feature-length documentary is a portrait of eclipse chasers, people for whom solar eclipses - a...
Blue Planet
Released on: 1990-01-01
Documentary
From the unique vantage point of 200 miles above Earth's surface, we see how natural forces - volcan...
Space Station 3D
Released on: 2002-04-17
Documentary
Some 220 miles above Earth lies the International Space Station, a one-of-a-kind outer space laborat...
A Global Warning?
Released on: 2007-11-11
Documentary
Global warming in context. What the climate of the past tells us about the climate of the future.
In the Shadow of the Moon
Released on: 2007-01-19
Documentary, History
Archival material from the original NASA film footage – much of it seen for the first time – plus in...
Trauma in These Walls
Released on:
Documentary, Drama, Mystery, Horror
A filmmaker returns to a house from his past where a great tragedy happened, in order to find a clos...
Destiny in Space
Released on: 1994-01-17
Documentary
Travel alongside the astronauts as they deploy and repair the Hubble Space Telescope, soar above Ven...
Roving Mars
Released on: 2006-01-27
Documentary
Join the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity for an awe-inspiring journey to the surface of the myste...
Mars: One Day on the Red Planet
Released on: 2020-01-05
Documentary
An epic journey around Mars — built from real satellite and rover data — revealing the red planet as...
Living in the Age of Airplanes
Released on: 2015-04-25
Documentary
LIVING IN THE AGE OF AIRPLANES offers a fresh perspective on a modern-day miracle that many of us ta...
Eyes on the Skies
Released on: 2008-01-01
Documentary
This movie explores the saga of the telescope over 400 years - the historical development, the scien...