Episode 2 Credits
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Space Weather FX is created by a team of producers in Massachusetts, with help and inspiration from the MIT Haystack Observatory Atmospheric Sciences Group, the National Science Foundation's Geosciences directorate (Upper Atmosphere Facilities division), NASA, and many other institutions. We gratefully acknowledge their expertise and contributions. |
PRODUCTION TEAM
- Written and narrated by Carolyn Collins Petersen
- Music by Geodesium
- Produced by Mark C. Petersen
- Vodcast project scientist: Philip J. Erickson
- Program coordinator: Madeleine Needles
- Script review: Anthea Coster, Philip J. Erickson, John Foster, Madeleine Needles, Preethi Pratap
- Education review: to be announced later
VIDEOGRAPHY
Mark C. Petersen
- Phil Erickson interview scenes
ANIMATIONS
Google Earth flyovers
Google EarthTM mapping service;
produced using an educationally licensed version of Google Earth Pro
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Science Visualization/Conceptual Image Lab
- Coronal Mass Ejection, Walt Feimer, animator
- Journey to the Heliopause, Walt Feimer, animator
- Earth's Magnetic Field Model, Walt Feimer, animator
- Solar flare movie
- Halloween 2003 flare sequence
- H-alpha view of solar flare, courtesy Dawn Myers
- Solar loops
CUSTOM ANIMATIONS by Loch Ness Productions
- Cool hydrogen gas molecules to hot plasma
- Generation of Earth's magnetic field
- Animation of Jupiter, Saturn magnetic fields
- Lightning and fire animations
STILL PHOTOGRAPHY
Mark C. Petersen
- Neon signs
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