Globe animations of surface topography of the planet Mercury.
Globe animations of surface topography of the planet Mercury showing data (MESS-H-MDIS-5-DEM-ELEVATION-V1.0) derived from Messenger missions.The Scientific colour map ‘batlow‘ is used to represent data accurately and to all readers.
Animations of Venusian surface topography on the globe.
Animations of Venusian surface topography on the globe. Shown is the Venus Magellan Global Topography 4641m (v2) representing the version 2 (1997 release) of the Global Topographic Data Record (GTDR-SINUS.3;2) available from https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/map/Venus/Magellan/RadarProperties/.The Scientific colour map ‘bilbao‘ is used to represent data accurately and to all readers.
Martian surface topography globe animation. Shown is the digital elevation model (available from https://astrogeology.usgs.gov) based on Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter data (MOLA; Smith et al. 1999) obtained on NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft (Albee et al. 2001).The Scientific colour map ‘lajolla‘ is used to represent data accurately and to all readers.
Global Cenozoic paleogeography, and the deep sea benthic foraminifera oxygen isotope curve.
Global Cenozoic paleogeography of Straume et al. (2020), and the deep sea benthic foraminifera oxygen isotope curve of Zachos et al. (2008).The Scientific colour map ‘oleron‘ is used to represent surface elevation accurately and to all readers.
Specific citation: This graphic by Eivind O. Straume is available via the open-access s-Ink repository.
Related reference: E.O. Straume, C. Gaina, S. Medvedev, and K.H. Nisancioglu (2020), Global Cenozoic Paleobathymetry with a focus on the Northern Hemisphere Oceanic Gateways, Gondwana Research, 86, 126-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2020.05.011
Animated illustration of human colour and lightness perception.
Animated illustration of human colour and lightness perception. Equally coloured objects might misleadingly appear to have different hue or lightness even though they do not and indeed represent the exact same values (an effect also known as “checker shadow illusion”). An effect that becomes problematic for scientific figures, as for example with heatmap plots.
Specific citation: This video by Stefan Scherrer from Crameri et al. (2020) is available via the open-access s-Ink repository.
Related reference: Crameri, F., G.E. Shephard, and P.J. Heron (2020), The misuse of colour in science communication, Nature Communications, 11, 5444. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-19160-7
Opening of the North East Atlantic Ocean and dynamic support from the Iceland mantle plume.
Opening of the North East Atlantic Ocean and dynamic support from the Iceland mantle plume.The Scientific colour maps ‘oleron’ and lajolla‘ is used to represent data accurately and to all readers.
Specific citation: This graphic by Eivind O. Straume is available via the open-access s-Ink repository.
Related reference: E.O. Straume, C. Gaina, S. Medvedev, and K.H. Nisancioglu (2020), Global Cenozoic Paleobathymetry with a focus on the Northern Hemisphere Oceanic Gateways, Gondwana Research, 86, 126-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2020.05.011
Temporal evolution of a global, fully spherical, 3D model of whole-mantle convection.
Movie showing the temporal evolution of a global, fully spherical, 3D model of whole-mantle convection under a stagnant lid with hot temperature isosurface (red) and stiff viscosity isosurfaces (grey).
Specific citation: This graphic by Fabio Crameri from Crameri and Tackley (2016) is available via the open-access s-Ink repository.
Related reference: Crameri, F., and P. J. Tackley (2016), Subduction initiation from a stagnant lid and global overturn: new insights from numerical models with a free surface, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 3(1), 1–19, doi:10.1186/s40645-016-0103-8
Temporal evolution of a global, fully spherical, 3D model of whole-mantle convection.
Animation showing the temporal evolution of whole-mantle convection including plate tectonics. The convective turnover of the mantle is characterised by hot rising mantle plumes (indicated by a hot, red temperature isosurface), and cold and stiff subduction zones of heavy tectonic surface plates (indicated by grey viscosity isosurfaces). Like on the Earth, in this model the mantle convects including its surface thermal boundary layer, with subduction zones (i.e., the sinking of cold and heavy oceanic plates) being its main driver. The global, fully spherical, 3D mantle convection model has been run by the code StagYY and represents the actual dynamics in the Earth’s mantle under some assumptions and simplifications.
Specific citation: This graphic by Fabio Crameri from Crameri and Tackley (2016) is available via the open-access s-ink.org repository.
Related reference: Crameri, F., and P. J. Tackley (2016), Subduction initiation from a stagnant lid and global overturn: new insights from numerical models with a free surface, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 3(1), 1–19, doi:10.1186/s40645-016-0103-8
