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The NASA Science Mission Directorate Education and Public Outreach Forums’ Speaker’s Bureau is available for requests and for additional entries by scientists!
Astronomers, planetary scientists, heliophysicists, and Earth scientists are available to speak with audiences on a variety of topics, from black holes to the search for life, through http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/speaker/request/. (If the request is for an astronaut or a presentation about NASA’s human space exploration,…
With all the complex coordinate systems I use in generating near-Earth data visualizations, I needed a way to check if I had done the transformations correctly.
So I generated a simple visualization that displayed the coordinate axes of the different systems and their reference directions. Since it might be of value to educators, I made it a little nicer than the bare-bones original test version. A movie, stills and a description of the coordinate systems represented is…