NASA's Orbiting Earth Observing Fleet (includes Aura)
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- Visualizations by:
- Greg Shirah
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NASA's Earth Observing fleet of vehicles constitutes a major milestone in the history of Earth science, facilitating the kinds of wide scale and synergistic research endeavors that until the last decade have been impossible to even consider. Many of the techniques being employed around Earth are a direct offshoot of technological and scientific techniques developed on missions to other worlds. NASA's continued commitment to primary research about our home remains a top priority not only to the agency, but to the nation, and the world as a whole. This visualization shows the spacecraft in NASA's Earth Observing fleet. The relative altitudes, speeds, and sun position are correct for 12-01-2003 starting at 5:00 UTC. Aura was added as it would appear in orbit (if it were in orbit at this time).
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. XEphem software used to propogate orbits; Blue Marble
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Animators
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
- Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Marte Newcombe (GST)
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Scientist
- Mark Schoeberl (NASA/GSFC)
Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Datasets used in this visualization
CelesTrak Spacecraft Orbit Ephemeris
Dataset can be found at: http://celestrak.com
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