Posted by Mark T. Tomczak at 04/21/2001 6:40 PM EST
Student on team #422, GSGIS Mech Techs, from The Governor’s School for Gov’t & Int’l Studies and Verizon/AMF Bakery Systems/VBEP.
Hey all!
I found the coolest thing on Goddard Space Flight
Center’s website. It’s a fly-in from space to Orlando
Florida (“bungie jump”-style) that was composited
from ground-scanning satellite footage. I expected
it to fly into downtown Orlando, but was pleasantly
surprised to see that it actually zooms in on
Florida->Orlando->Disney World->Epcot! If you
pause a few seconds before maximum zoom, you
can even see FIRST city in the upper-right hand
corner!
The link to the website follows below. It’s a 4.9MB
MPEG video, but if you can, you should probably
take the time to download it; your team might be
able to use the video in its promotions.
Take care,
Mark
Posted by Matt Leese at 04/21/2001 8:06 PM EST
College Student on team #73, Tigerbolt, from Edison Technical HS and Alstom & Fiber Technologies & RIT.
In Reply to: Orlando fly-in on GSFC
Posted by Mark T. Tomczak on 04/21/2001 6:40 PM EST:
If you look closely as the picture zooms in you can see some tents in the parking lot. Yep, the nationals tents are quite visible there. I found that to be slightly entertaining. 
Matt who’s apparently rather easily amused
Posted by Patrick Dingle at 04/22/2001 3:08 PM EST
College Student on team #639, Red B^2, from Ithaca High School and Cornell University.
In Reply to: Orlando fly-in on GSFC
Posted by Mark T. Tomczak on 04/21/2001 6:40 PM EST:
Is that movie from last year?? The tents look differently laid out than this year.
Patrick
: Hey all!
: I found the coolest thing on Goddard Space Flight
: Center’s website. It’s a fly-in from space to Orlando
: Florida (“bungie jump”-style) that was composited
: from ground-scanning satellite footage. I expected
: it to fly into downtown Orlando, but was pleasantly
: surprised to see that it actually zooms in on
: Florida->Orlando->Disney World->Epcot! If you
: pause a few seconds before maximum zoom, you
: can even see FIRST city in the upper-right hand
: corner!
: The link to the website follows below. It’s a 4.9MB
: MPEG video, but if you can, you should probably
: take the time to download it; your team might be
: able to use the video in its promotions.
: Take care,
: Mark
Posted by Matt Leese at 04/22/2001 5:14 PM EST
College Student on team #73, Tigerbolt, from Edison Technical HS and Alstom & Fiber Technologies & RIT.
In Reply to: Re: Orlando fly-in on GSFC
Posted by Patrick Dingle on 04/22/2001 3:08 PM EST:
The video is from whenever the Landsat (I believe they used Landsat for these photos) took the various photos used in the visualization. It’s highly likely that these photos were taken quite a while ago as opposed to recently. They have done a series of “virtual sky diving” movies of several different locations including Washington DC, Los Angelos, and Orlando.
Matt