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Nerdy Curio

 January 15, 2018

DIY Glacier Modeling with Virtual Earth System Laboratory

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In today's Nerdy Curio from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, a new NASA sea level simulator allows anyone with a home computer to try their hand at do-it-yourself glacier modeling.

Aired November 30, 2017

All NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory content is available at www.jpl.nasa.gov

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    Pam H
    Maybe NASA is getting better at these videos. This one only stuttered and broke up eleven times!
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    Chris R
    You realize that's either your device processor or service bandwidth that's choking this digital video. Digital video doesn't "stutter". It gets stuck when the device processing the video either can't do it fast enough or can't get the data quickly enough to do so.
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    Pam H
    Right. And my device only has this problem when they are from NASA. Every time with NASA. Never with any others. Good to know. Unlikely, but maybe NASA's two minute snippets contain sooo much data that I can't cope. Even though I can watch an hour long movie with no trouble. I bow to your superior knowledge of the subject. But I expect to be similarly frustrated by the next NASA clip I try to watch.
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    emma o
    At what rate are snow level averages currently changing at polar ice caps? And does this the NASA server allow individuals to assess the possible change in thickness from the current state of the glacier? Or is it based upon a predefined image? I know he addressed that, but it seems crazy that we would have direct access to such data at any moment, based solely off computational power.
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    Kassandra R
    NASA has a few simulations released to the public with immense amounts of information and data they’ve collected. This one is fairly simple considering that we can nearly do this with Google Earth. Check out https://space.jpl.nasa.gov/ once.
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