Earth Observing Fleet
- Visualizations by:
- Greg Shirah
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This animation will be regularly updated to show the orbits of the current earth observing fleet.
This most recent version, published in March 2017, includes the CYGNSS constellation and DSCOVR at L1. Visit the original page here.
Previous versions from recent years include:
entry 4274 a February 2015 version including SMAP
entry 3996 a spring 2014 version including GPM
entry 4070 a May 2013 version which added Landsat-8
entry 3892 a Dec 2011 version which added Suomi NPP and Aquarius
entry 3725 a version from June 2010
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
Animators
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
- Alex Kekesi (GST)
- Eric Sokolowsky (GST)
- Ernie Wright (USRA)
Project support
- Ian Jones (ADNET)
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET)
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:- Aqua
- Aquarius
- Aura
- CALIPSO
- Cloudsat
- Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS)
- Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR)
- Earth Observing-1
- Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)
- ISS-RapidScat (RapidScat)
- Landsat
- LDCM: Landsat Data Continuity Mission
- Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2)
- Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)
- Suomi NPP
- Terra
Datasets used in this visualization
Terra and Aqua BMNG (A.K.A. Blue Marble: Next Generation) (Collected with the MODIS sensor)
Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
Dataset can be found at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
See more visualizations using this data setCelesTrak Spacecraft Orbit Ephemeris
Dataset can be found at: http://celestrak.com
See more visualizations using this data setGEOS-5 Cubed-Sphere (A.K.A. GEOS-5 Atmospheric Model on the Cubed-Sphere)
The model is the GEOS-5 atmospheric model on the cubed-sphere, run at 14-km global resolution for 30-days. GEOS-5 is described here http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/systems/geos5/ and the cubed-sphere work is described here http://sivo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cubedsphere_overview.html.
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