NASA scientists have created a two-minute animated tour under the Pacific Ocean, based on real data about the sea floor's peaks and valleys. Submerge near Hawaii, run like a submarine to Japan, and finally dive to the ocean's deepest point, between Japan and New Guinea.
courtesy of Gene Feldman and Dave Pape, NASA

Map showing above water (red) and undersea (blue) flightpath

Click on the images above or the list below to see mpeg animations of some of the segments of the actual flyby.

1. View the entire animation (from the Scientific Visualization Studio site)

2. Approach to Earth (1 Mbyte)

3. Hawaiian Overflight (1.4 Mbyte)

4. Splashdown (845 Kbyte)

5. Swimming with the Dolphins ( 945 Kbyte)

6. Approach to the Mariana Trench (488 Kbyte)

7. A Journey through the Trench (262 Kbyte)

8. Back to the Surface...and Beyond (1.3 Mbyte)

Ocean Planet Exhibition Floorplan

gene carl feldman (gene@seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov) (301) 286-9428
Judith Gradwohl, Smithsonian Institution (Curator/Ocean Planet)