SOSx Mobile offers more than 115 datasets from NOAA, NASA, and academic institutions, including: Climate models predicting Earth’s temperature through 2100 for different greenhouse gas emissions scenarios National Marine Sanctuaries’ 360-degree underwater photographs in the Florida Keys and the entire 2017 hurricane season, including Hurricanes Irma and Maria, as captured by NOAA weather satellites. “It’s a great way to work with teachers and students.” “I use my phone to show sea surface currents, clouds, Saturn’s rings, and much more to anyone who will let me,” said Kate Semmens, Science Director at Nurture Nature Center, an Easton, Pennsylvania science museum that’s home to one of the 165 Science On a Sphere® installations.
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SOS Explorer Mobile and SOS Explorer, a portable flat-screen exhibit-quality version, are designed to help educators, science communicators, students, and the public tap into SOS datasets from their personal devices. SOSx Mobile is the latest addition to a family of data-viewing tools created by NOAA, CIRES, and CIRA scientists in NOAA’s Global Systems Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. The bedrock of these visualization tools is Science On a Sphere® (SOS), a room-sized animated globe featured in more than 160 museums and visitor centers worldwide. On the SOS Explorer (SOSx) Mobile app, users can interact with streaming data visualizations-zooming in and out, rotating, scrolling through time, taking guided tours through datasets, and watching embedded educational videos. They’re animations of data-observations of the ocean, atmosphere, space, and land collected by satellites, and the output of numerical models used by scientists to predict and monitor Earth and space. These aren't your typical movies, however.
NOAA's SOS Explorer™ Mobile, an app for personal mobile devices, tells earth science stories by playing visually stunning movies on a virtual globe. Sos explorer™ Visualization of a Tsunami triggered by the 9.2 cascadia earthquake in 1700. Your browser does not support the video tag.