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Hyperwall Design Template (Keynote)
File Keynote_template_1280x720.key

A fairly easy way to design your hyperwall layout(s) is to download this Keynote design template, mentioned in NASA’s Hyperwall: A Guide for Preparing Hyperwall Content. This template has been set up to display a grid that represents the individual videos screens using a 16 by 9 page size.

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Hyperwall Design Template (PowerPoint)
File PowerPoint_template_1280x720.pptx

A fairly easy way to design your hyperwall layout(s) is to download this PowerPoint design template, mentioned in NASA’s Hyperwall: A Guide for Preparing Hyperwall Content. This template has been set up to display a grid that represents the individual videos screens using a 16 by 9 page size.

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Landsat Data Continuity Mission
PDF icon LDCM (Landsat 8) Mission Brochure (10 MB)

Unprecedented changes in land cover and use are having profound consequences for weather and climate change, ecosystem function and services, carbon cycling and sequestration, resource management, the national and global economy, human health, and society. Measurements taken by the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) serve NASA research in the focus areas of climate, carbon cycle, ecosystems, water cycle, biogeochemistry, and Earth surface/interior.

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Lights at Night Puzzle
PDF icon LightsatNightPuzzle_NPP_final-4.pdf

The Lights at Night puzzle features a region of the North American continent at night centered on the contiguous United States as observed by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite. The image was created using data from the VIIRS "day-night band" from nine days in April and thirteen days in October 2012. The file includes a brochure with more information about how the image was made and how the VIIRS lights-at-night dataset is used, as well as several interesting facts and a lights-at-night map quiz.

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2012 NASA Science Mission Directorate Calendar
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Air Pollution Around the World, 2005-2010
PDF icon NO2GlobalLenticular_508.pdf

An at-a-glance tour of the world's nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution during the years 2005 and 2010. Discover how population correlates with this important pollutant and where its concentration has changed over time.

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Understanding Earth: The Icy Arctic
PDF icon Icy Arctic Final_508.pdf, Binary Data Understanding Earth_The Icy Arctic.ibooks

Over the last decade, satellite data—often combined with data from other sources—have revealed that the Arctic is changing at rates faster than anywhere else on Earth. These changes are interrelated and have both long- and short-term effects on Earth’s land surfaces, oceans, and atmosphere, ultimately impacting the Earth’s climate system. To better understand the Arctic environment, scientists at NASA are working in collaboration with various experts from other federal agencies, universities, private companies, and not-for-profit organizations. This booklet—the third in the Understanding Earth series—explains how NASA keeps a close eye on the Arctic and how the changes taking place there are affecting you.

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2011 NASA Science Mission Directorate
PDF icon 2011Calendar.pdf

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Assessing Air Quality from Space
PDF icon NO2-Population508.pdf

Learn about the direct connection between population density in the United States and air pollution in this striking comparison between 3 maps: the 2010 census, U.S. city lights at night, and nitrogen dioxide concentration.

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Glory
PDF icon 2011_0120GlorySWG.pdf

Glory will improve measurements of two critical parts of the climate system: small airborne particles called aerosols and a measure of the sun’s output called total solar irradiance (TSI). This guide is a resource for science writers and journalists, providing contact information for experts working on the mission; information on the spacecraft, its instruments, and the science behind the Glory mission; feature stories about aerosols, the sun’s energy, and how these elements affect our climate. *Glory was lost in a vehicle launch failure.

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