A 16-minute film where viewers can experience how hurricanes form, how satellites collect data from outer space, and the changes in ocean temperature. It's like sitting on a spaceship and watching the changes happening on Earth or on other planets right underneath you!

See global weather patterns in near real time.  Learn how temperatures of clouds and lands, different circulation patterns in the northern and southern hemispheres, and the warming and cooling of continents effects weather around the world.

Follow the annual cycle of sea surface temperatures across all oceans through the seasons. El Nino and La Nina events can be clearly observed.

See how the northern and southern hemisphere simultaneously experience opposite seasons due to the 23 degree tilt of the earth’s rotational axis.

Compiled from NASA exploration missions. See the other side of the Moon that we can’t see from Earth.  On Mars, see Olympus Mons--the largest volcano in our solar system—16 miles high, plus  Mariner Valley—a canyon 2500 miles long and 4 miles deep.

Follow tropical disturbances moving from east-to-west and the formation of occasional tropical storms.  Locate the  Intertropical Convergence Zone—a band of rich moisture that circles the Earth near the equator, where the trade winds of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres come together.

A time-elapsed frame set of approximately 4000 high resolution images with original artwork showing evolution of the earth’s surface due to plate tectonics over the past 600-million years.

Used by the National Weather Service for global weather forecasting, the data originates with geostationary weather satellites from around the world and is filled in with data from polar-orbiting satellites.

See the outer atmosphere of the Sun, called the corona. This outer layer is hundreds to thousands of times hotter than the surface of the Sun we see in visible light and is where the Sun is most dynamic. See flares, solar eruptions, coronal holes, and how they affect life on earth and the technology we rely on.

See animated visualizations on a variety of subjects including Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, the Mars global surveyor spacecraft findings, the earth with clouds, ocean and land cover, and much more.

See the earth's rotation showing transitions from day to night and back. Highlights include the mid-Atlantic ridge in the middle of the Atlantic, the Himalayas in the Tibetan plateau, the Mariana Trench east of Japan and more.