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NASA's Earth Observing Fleet: March 2017
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- Visualizations by:
- Greg Shirah
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This animation shows the orbits of NASA's fleet of Earth observing spacecraft that are considered operational as of March 2017. New elements in this version include the CYGNSS constellation and DSCOVR at L1. The clouds used in this version are from a high resolution GEOS model run at 10 minute time steps interpolated down to the per-frame level.
The following spacecraft are included:
- Aqua
- Aura
- CALIPSO: Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation
- CYGNSS-1: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System 1
- CYGNSS-2: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System 2
- CYGNSS-3: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System 3
- CYGNSS-4: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System 4
- CYNGSS-5: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System 5
- CYGNSS-6: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System 6
- CYGNSS-7: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System 7
- CYGNSS-8: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System 8
- Cloudsat
- DSCOVR: Deep Space Climate Observatory
- GPM: Global Precipitation Measurement
- GRACE-1: Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment-1
- GRACE-2: Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment-2
- ISS: International Space Station
- Jason 2
- Jason 3
- Landsat 7
- Landsat 8
- OCO-2: Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2
- SMAP: Soil Moisture Passive Active
- SORCE: Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment
- Suomi NPP: Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership
- Terra
- QuikSCAT
Also included:
- Stars
- Moon
- Sun
- Earth
- L1: Sun-Earth Lagrange Point
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
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Visualizers
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
- Ernie Wright (USRA)
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Project support
- Eric Sokolowsky (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Technical support
- Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Datasets used in this visualization
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GTOPO30 Topography and Bathymetry
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CelesTrak Spacecraft Orbit Ephemeris
ID: 454This dataset can be found at: http://celestrak.com
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Hipparcos Tycho Catalogue (Tycho 2 Catalogue)
ID: 550This dataset can be found at: http://archive.eso.org/ASTROM/
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JPL/Horizon Orbital Ephemerides
ID: 597Planetary ephemerides
This dataset can be found at: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?horizons
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GEOS Atmospheric Model
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Space-Track TLE (Space-Track Two-Line Elements)
ID: 753Satellite ephemerides
This dataset can be found at: http://Space-Track.org
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