Science on a Sphere: Plate Tectonics and Paleo Animation

Science On a Sphere® is a large visualization system that uses computers and video projectors to display animated data onto the outside of a sphere. Said another way, SOS is an animated globe that can show dynamic, animated images of the atmosphere, oceans, and land of a planet. NOAA primarily uses SOS as an education and outreach tool to describe the environmental processes of Earth.

This video shows a short piece of Earth's tectonic evolution.

To download this video and more from Science on a Sphere, go here:
http://sos.noaa.gov/gallery/

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[gorilla199uncensored]

neal adams is a total fool he doesnt even think his stupid arguements thru let alone check facts.

Cliams dinsaurs died out because they couldnt migrate from europe to africa, so they froze to death.

Ignoring the facts

1) Dinosaurs where warm blooded

2) The majority of the dinosaurs didnt migrate from europe to africa

3) Didnt explain why the cold blooded reptiles didnt die out.

When I pointed out his failures

He deleted my comments and blocked me

[JamesThWilliams]

@420bmxer

I think you mean sense and magically replicating particles out of nothing to grow the earth doesn't.

[EskolainenKarma]

Tesla knew planets grow

[mviper500]

@gorilla199uncensored Guess what? HE BLOCKED ME TOO! YAY!!

[mviper500]

@gorilla199uncensored He's an ignorant fool who just says things from the top of his head and surprisingly people believe them.

[jfrank197TBC]

I believe it because I'm educated. Just a side note...shouldn't the leader of our nation be the smartest person available? Who do you think is smarter, a politician or the engineer, the biologist, the chemist, the physicist, etc.?

[olliet24]

this is wrong england used to be connected to france

[johnnytheprick]

@gorilla199uncensored lolololololo...........only one fool here.

[TheMapleStoryFan101]

EM6 FTW

[rockthecityatnight]

Neal Adam's growing earth animations are far more convincing. watch?v=oJfBSc6e7QQ

[EarthForums]

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