Earth/Moon/Planets

Earth, City light of  the Earth, Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Io (a satellite of the Jupiter)

Made by Dagik Team
Images were provided by NASA, NASA/JPL-Caltech., and U.S. Geological Survey

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Waxing and waning Moon
The sunlit and shadow areas of the Moon for each day. It is easy to understand that the waxing and waning of the Moon is caused by the rotation of the sunlit/shadow area.

Made by Dagik Team
The Moon's surface image was provided byU.S. Geological Survey. The contrast of the image was

modified.

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Day and night of the Earth
Day and night area of the Earth for four seasons. The seasonal change of the length of the day/night can be seen. 

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Earth's land Image: NASA Blue Marble by NASA's Earth Observatory (Ocean color is changed.）

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Download December (7Mbyte)
Download June and September (14Mbyte)

 

Global Forest/Non-forest Map

Global Forest/Non-forest Map in 2009 by ALOS/PALSAR Observation

ALOS/PALSAR data Copyright:  JAXA/METI
Data analysis：JAXA  http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/alos

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Seasonal Change of the Earth's Surface

Monthly image of the Earth's land in 2004 by NASA Blue Marble

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Earth's land Image: NASA Blue Marble by NASA's Earth Observatory (Ocean color is changed.）

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Aurora
Aurora observed by FUV on the NASA's IMAGE satellite. Rings of aurora surrounded the both poles.

Made by Dagik Team

IMAGE/FUV images were provide by SSL, University of California, Berkeley
(http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/image/).

Earth's land Image: NASA Blue Marble by NASA's Earth Observatory (Ocean color is changed.）

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Ionospheric disturbance after the earthquake

Variations of the ionospheric plasma after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake on March 11, 2011

Made by Dagik Team
GPS Observation by GEONET of GSI Japan
Data: GPS Total Electron Content database http://stegps.kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
Earth's land Image: NASA Blue Marble by NASA's Earth Observatory (Ocean color is changed.）

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Typhoon to Japan (October, 2009)
Evolution of a typhoon in two weeks. Typhoon moved from east to west at the begining, and turned to east, and landed main island of Japan.

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Cloud image is based on the data of NCEP/CPC 4km Global IR Dataset by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM).

Earth's land Image: NASA Blue Marble by NASA's Earth Observatory (Ocean color is changed.）

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Cyclone near Madagascar (February, 2008)
Evolution of a cyclone near Madacascar. The movement of the vortex is differrent from that in the noruthern hemisphere.

Made by Dagik Team

Cloud image is based on the data of NCEP/CPC 4km Global IR Dataset by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM).

Earth's land Image: NASA Blue Marble by NASA's Earth Observatory (Ocean color is changed.）

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Cyclone location & Sea surface temperature (1980-2007)

Locations of the tropical cyclone generation were plotted on the sea surface temperature map.

Made by Dagik Team
Sea surface temperature data:
ERSST.v2 by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center [http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/]
Tropical cyclone track data: IBTrACS by World Data Center for Meteorology, Asheville
Earth's land Image: NASA Blue Marble by NASA's Earth Observatory (Ocean color is changed.）

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Sea surface temperature (SST) in December from 1980 to 2007

Made by Dagik Team
Sea surface temperature data:  ERSST.v2 by NOAA's National  Climatic Data Center [http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/]
Earth's land Image: NASA Blue Marble by NASA's Earth Observatory (Ocean color is changed.）

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Ozone distribution in 2002 and 2003
Ozone distribution observed by a satellite. The ozone hole appeared from September to November over antarctica.

Made by Dagik Team

Total ozone data was obserbed and provided by NASA's TOMS and OMI, http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/.

Earth's land Image: NASA Blue Marble by NASA's Earth Observatory (Ocean color is changed.）

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Ozone hole in the northern hemisphere
Ozone distribution observed by a satellite from February to April in 2010 and 2011. In 2011, the ozone hole appeared in the norhthern hemisphere around the end of March.

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Total ozone data was obserbed and provided by NASA's TOMS and OMI, http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/.

Earth's land Image: NASA Blue Marble by NASA's Earth Observatory (Ocean color is changed.）

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 Ground surface movement during the earthquake in 2011

Horizontal movement of the ground surface during the Earthquake on March 11, 2011
GPS data of GEONET by GSI Japan was analyzed by M. Kano et al. (Kyoto University). Time is in JST.

Made by Dagik Team
 Generic Mapping Tool [Wessel and Smith, 1998] was used for plotting.
Earth's land Image: NASA Blue Marble by NASA's Earth Observatory (Ocean color is changed.）

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World Map of Earthquakes from 1900 to 2007

World Map of Earthquakes whose magnitude was larger than 6.0 from 1900 to 2007

Made by Dagik Team
Data:
 Centennial Earthquake Catalog by the U.S. Geology Survey
 http://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/data/centennial.php

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The geomagnetic field

The Earth's magnetic field by IGRF model.
IGRFmodel is an empirical model based on the observational data.

Made by Dagik Team

Earth's land Image: NASA Blue Marble by NASA's Earth Observatory (Ocean color is changed.）

Download: Intensity of the geomagnetic field from 1900 to 2020(prediction)  (15Mbyte)
Download: Rate of change of the geomagnetic field in ten years (13Mbyte)

Anomaly of the geomagnetic field

Anomaly of the geomagnetic field by World Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map 2007http://projects.gtk.fi/WDMAM/]

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White map
3 types of white map to create your own contents. Coast lines, coordinates lines, and boarders. Boarders are as of 2002.

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Template to make your own contents

Template files to make your contents. The Earth's land image with lines of latitudes and longitudes.

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Earth's land Image: NASA Blue Marble by NASA's Earth Observatory (Ocean color is changed.）

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Test pattern for adjustment

Test pattern for adjustment of PC projector and images to project on a spherical screen.

Made by Dagik Team

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