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The Earth Space 4-D; Visualizing the Ionosphere using Google Earth ^©

	NASA's Living With a Star program provided support for the solar flare evolution data component and visualization using the Google Earth platform.

Notice: Please see an important update regarding changes to CAPS/Ionops data access at: http://www.spacewx.com/CAPS_notice.html

Download and install the Google Earth ^© application



1. Download one or more of following ES4D KML files to your computer:
   
   
• Recent Total Electron Content
• Earlier 24 hours TEC movie
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2. Double-click or drag-drop the files selected above onto the Google Earth application icon
   
   
3. In Google Earth, select one or more the desired views under Places
   
   
4. Select optional Google Earth Views:
   • Weather in the Layers sidebar
   • Terrain in the Layers sidebar
   • Grid (lat/long) under View Menu
   • Atmosphere under View Menu
     
     
5. Navigate using the zoom, tilt, and rotate sliders in the upper right corner
   
   
6. View a movie of the past 24 hours using the time slider with 1 movie selected
   
   
7. See this brief user guide for additional information.