NASA Space Weather Viewer - Visualizations
NASA satellites capture hourly views of our sun that are then used by scientists to study solar phenomena. The Space Weather Viewer provides the same images to anyone with an Internet connection. Visitors to the Space Weather Viewer site can zoom in on current satellite images to see solar storms and sunspots and other activity on as it happens on our nearest star, the Sun.
In addition to near-real time images, the site provides illustrations, NASA mission info, video simulations, and scientist interviews to give visitors a range of information on the Sun and solar phenomena. All the videos are broadcast-quality and visitors can download copies of all the media to their local computers, as well as captions for each video.
The application scales the satellite images to fill the browser window. All of the menu items and controls can be hidden to further maximize the size of the images. The minimalist design deliberately fades into the background to allow visitors to focus their attention on the beautiful imagery that composes the interactive.
The Space Weather Viewer was developed using Adobe Flex. This open source platform allowed us to quickly create the interface. The zoom feature and captioning feature were custom coded. All of the content on the site is external to application. The extensible markup language (XML) was used for descriptive text files and menus.
Developed by Ideum with NASA. To learn more about this exhibit please visit our portfolio.
NASA Space Weather Viewer - Visualizations
NASA satellites capture hourly views of our sun that are then used by scientists to study solar phenomena. The Space Weather Viewer provides the same images to anyone with an Internet connection. Visitors to the Space Weather Viewer site can zoom in on current satellite images to see solar storms and sunspots and other activity on as it happens on our nearest star, the Sun.
In addition to near-real time images, the site provides illustrations, NASA mission info, video simulations, and scientist interviews to give visitors a range of information on the Sun and solar phenomena. All the videos are broadcast-quality and visitors can download copies of all the media to their local computers, as well as captions for each video.
The application scales the satellite images to fill the browser window. All of the menu items and controls can be hidden to further maximize the size of the images. The minimalist design deliberately fades into the background to allow visitors to focus their attention on the beautiful imagery that composes the interactive.
The Space Weather Viewer was developed using Adobe Flex. This open source platform allowed us to quickly create the interface. The zoom feature and captioning feature were custom coded. All of the content on the site is external to application. The extensible markup language (XML) was used for descriptive text files and menus.
Developed by Ideum with NASA. To learn more about this exhibit please visit our portfolio.