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The Science On a Sphere® product suite is the collection of software and resources that are available from the NOAA SOS development team to all SOS and SOS Explorer® users.

The SOS Public Kiosk gives visitors control of SOS through a touchscreen that is installed near the sphere. Sites can customize the datasets and categories that are shown on the kiosk. The software runs on a separate Windows computer.

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Extra Features

Many of the parts of the SOS system can be localized for international locations including the Data Catalog, the Kiosk, the SOS Remote App, and the Visual Playlist Editor. Sites are responsible for doing the translations, though the SOS team can collaborate to distribute translations that are made available for others.

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Projector alignment is the process that allows a dataset to be displayed by multiple projectors such that a dataset (an image or video) appears as one continuous image around the sphere.

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