- Credit: NASA/SVS
At NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS), a team of “visualizers” take raw scientific data and translate that data into visual imagery.
The visuals help both scientists and the general public better understand the data NASA satellites and airborne missions provide. The intent is to better comprehend complex phenomena invisible to the naked eye and “see” how the planet works.
The result?
The imagery SVS creates is scientifically accurate to a degree few others match. The final view is both science and art. And it was captured not by a satellite, but by a scientific instrument infinitely more sophisticated — the human mind.
You’ll find a real resource of material thanks to SVS. For a recent visualization — Annual Gradient Melt over Greenland: 1979 through 2009 – take a look at:
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003700/a003720/index.html
By LD/CSE