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Earth Origami

Carl Skalak was on a solo canoe trip in the

Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York when a

surprise storm brought three days of high winds and

heavy rain that eventually turned to snow. When the

weather cleared, the river was frozen over and he was

surrounded by high drifts of heavy snow.

NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite,

Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)

operates a search and rescue system known

as COSPAS-SARSAT, in cooperation with the

U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Air Force, and

the National Aeronautics and Space Admin-

istration. This system can detect emergency

signals from Personal Locator Beacons

anywhere in the world. Carl Skalak’s PLB

may have saved his life.

“I knew I couldn’t get out on my own, and didn’t

know if that situation would change for the positive

anytime soon.”

Skalak activated a Personal Locator Beacon (PLB),

which sent a distress message to NOAA’s Search

and Rescue Satellite Aid Tracking System (SARSAT).

According to Lt. Daniel Karlson, SARSAT operations

support officer for NOAA, “Mr. Skalak was facing

a life-threatening situation because of his isolated

conditions and the brutally frigid weather. In a

matter of a few hours, he might have become acutely

hypothermic putting his life at risk.” The SARSAT distress

signal was relayed to the Air Force Rescue Coordination

Center at Langley Air Force Base, Va., which in turn notified

the nearest rescue unit, the U.S. Army Fort Drum Air

Ambulance Detachment near Watertown, N.Y. A few hours

after activating his PLB, Mr. Skalak was rescued.

Digital Global Image by Peter W. Slos, NOAA-NGDC

NESDIS uses satellites for many other

purposes in addition to search and rescue,

and gathers information about Earth’s

environment that includes the location of

major ishing areas, hurricanes, tsunamis,

earthquakes, ires, and volcanoes, as well

as information about Earth’s habitats, geology,

and climate. NOAA makes this information avail-

able to many people for many different purposes.

Here’s one example of a special NESDIS product:

satellite images of Earth, assembled so that the

combined image can be folded to produce a three-

dimensional object that is almost round.

What You Will Do

Make a three-dimensional

model of Earth

~ from NOAA News Online (Story 2124) at

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2003/s2124.htm

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Earth Origami

Discover Your World With NOAA

What You Will Need

r National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)

“Origami Balloon” image, copied on a color

printer as large as you can make it. You can

download a pdf ile of this image (2.5 MB)

from http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/im-

age/origamiearth.pdf

r Scissors

fold along the same crease in the opposite

direction. Unfold the image so it is a square

again.

5. Put your thumbs on the ends of the horizon-

tal crease formed in Step 2. Push the sides

of the square together, and latten into a

triangle. The longest side of the triangle

should be closest to you.

How to Do It

1. Cut the Origami Balloon image into a square.

2. Put the square image face-up on a lat

surface so that the NOAA logo is right-side-

up. Fold the bottom edge to the top edge,

and make a crease that passes through the

center of the square. Now unfold and refold

along the same crease so the image is fac-

ing out. This will make it easier to shape

the model in later steps. Unfold the image

so it is a square again.

4. Fold the other corner to the opposite corner,

and make another diagonal crease so that

you now have three creases that cross in

the center of the square. Unfold and re-

fold along the same crease in the opposite

direction. Unfold the image so it is a square

again.

6. Notice that there are two pieces at each of

the side corners of the triangle, one on top

of the other. Take the upper piece at one of

the side corners (a), bring it to the top of

the triangle, and make a crease (b). Re-

peat with the upper piece of the other side

corner.

fold

3. Bring one corner to the opposite corner and

make a diagonal crease that passes through

the center of the square. Unfold and re-

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9. Turn the model over, and repeat Step 8.

Want to Do More?

1. See http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/education/ed-

ucation.html for lots of other images, maps,

and activities.

10. Notice that there are two free points at the

top of the model. If you turn the model

over, there are two more free points at the

top. Fold down the left free point at the top

of the model (a). Open up the pocket on

the left, and tuck the point into the pocket.

Repeat with the right free point (b).

2. Visit http://www.magazine.noaa.gov/stories/

mag96.htm for more information about

COSPAS/SARSAT and Personal Locator

Beacons.

7. Turn the model over, and repeat Step 6.

8. Now there are two pieces at each of the side

corners, one on top of the other. Fold the

upper piece on one side to the center and

make a vertical crease (a). Repeat with the

upper piece of the other side (b).

11. Turn the model over, and repeat Step 10.

An artist’s conception of a fully integrated envi-

ronmental monitoring system including satellites,

balloons, ships, aircraft, buoys, and data reception and

processing facilities.Courtesy NOAA.

12. Open up the shape and ind the open end

at the bottom of the model.

13. Hold the model lightly by the edges, and

blow sharply into the hole. The Earth Ori-

gami Balloon will inlate!

Origami illustrations courtesy Mel Goodwin

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

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