NOAA Acting Administrator Dr. Kathryn Sullivan on the 100th Installation of Science On a Sphere

The 100th NOAA Science On a Sphere was opened in November 2013 at NOAA’s headquarters in Silver Spring, MD. This large and luminous sphere can be seen in museums, aquariums, and other science institutions around the U.S. and other locations throughout the world. Using computers and video projectors, the system displays planetary data on an opaque carbon fiber sphere, and presenters can draw from more than 400 annotated datasets to highlight weather observations, climate models, hurricane tracks, ocean acidification plus the latest solar system imagery (including Mars, Jupiter, and the Moon and ancient Earth conditions Pangaea/continental drift). To learn more about the Sphere and to find a location near you, visit http://www.sos.noaa.gov/ or http://www.facebook.com/scienceonasphere

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