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3D Animation of Earth and Space Science Concepts
CME Impacting the Earth's Magnetosphere
Shown below is an animation illustrating a Coronal Mass Ejection
(CME) impacting the earth's magnetosphere. Moving at roughly one million miles per hour, a
CME would take between thirty minutes and one hour to move through the earth's
magnetosphere.
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| A 6 second, 275 KB QuickTime movie
that shows the effect of a CME impact on a 3D representation of the earth's magnetic field
at 60 degrees, 75 degrees, and 85 degrees magnetic latitude. The sun is offscreen to
the left. The CME impact depicted here would take between thirty minutes and one
hour to occur. |
The dynamic 3D magnetic field shapes were generated by custom Digital Radiance
software that processed magnetic field-line simulation data files provided by NASA
researchers Jim Spann, Dennis Gallagher, and Heather Elliott. The earth's surface, the
clouds, and the stars in the animation are scientifically accurate data. The earth's
surface data is derived from data from the AVHRR satellite, the clouds are derived from
the GOES satellite's visible light channels, and the 1 million+ stars are derived from the
Tycho star catalog.
Click to see other 3D animations we've developed for the NASA
Marshall Spaceflight Center's Science Directorate.
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