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"title": "NASA Earth Observing Fleet (February 2015)",
"description": "A newer version of this visualization can be found here. || Orbital Fleet including SMAP without TRMM || fleet_withSMAP_noTRMM.2150_print.jpg (1024x576) [146.7 KB] || fleet_withSMAP_noTRMM_1920x1080_60fps.webm (1920x1080) [10.0 MB] || fleet_withSMAP_noTRMM_1920x1080_60fps.mp4 (1920x1080) [56.4 MB] || fleet_withSMAP_noTRMM (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || fleet_withSMAP_noTRMM_640x360_30fps.m4v (640x360) [15.1 MB] || without_TRMM (9600x3240) [0 Item(s)] || without_TRMM-ppm [0 Item(s)] || ",
"release_date": "2015-02-26T00:00:00-05:00",
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"title": "NASA Earth Observing Fleet (August 2014)",
"description": "This animation shows the orbits of NASA's fleet of Earth remote sensing observatories as of August 2014.The satellites include components of the A-Train:AquaAuraCloudSatCALIPSORecently launched missions:GPMOCO-2the International Space Stationand eleven others:AquariusSuomi NPPTerraSORCEGRACE Jason 2Landsat 7Landsat 8QuikSCATTRMMEO-1These satellites measure tropical rainfall, solar irradiance, clouds, sea surface height, ocean salinity, and other aspects of the global environment. Together, they provide a picture of the Earth as a system.This is an update of entry 3725. This update was created both for an annual presentation at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) and for display on the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) hyperwall, a 5 x 3 array of high-definition displays with a total pixel resolution of 9600 x 3240. The version for NASM starts with three flagship missions (Terra, Aqua, and Aura) then fades on the other spacecraft. The hyperwall version shows all of the spacecraft the entire time. The orbits are based on orbital elements with epochs on August 1, 2014. The NASM version is from 00:00:00 GMT to 12:10:26 GMT. The hyperwall version is from 00:00:00 GMT to 07:18:16 GMT. || ",
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"alt_text": "NASM version of the fleet starting with Terra, Aqua, and Aura and then adding the rest of the Earth observing fleet",
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"title": "NASA Earth Observing Fleet including GPM",
"description": "A newer version of this visualization can be found here.This animation shows the orbits of NASA's current (as of January 2014) fleet of Earth remote sensing observatories. The satellites include components of the A-Train (Aqua, Aura, CloudSat, CALIPSO), two satellites launched in 2011 (Aquarius, Suomi NPP), and eleven others (ACRIMSAT, SORCE, GRACE, Jason 1 and 2, Landsat 7, Landsat 8, GPM, QuikSCAT, TRMM, and EO-1). These satellites measure tropical rainfall, solar irradiance, clouds, sea surface height, ocean salinity, and other aspects of the global environment. Together, they provide a picture of the Earth as a system.This is an update of visualization #4070. The orbits are based on orbital elements with epochs in April of 2013. The visualization spans twenty-nine hours, from 04:10 UT on April 14, 2013 to 09:24 UT on Aril 15, 2013. Some simulated orbits where added, such as GPM, as they had not launched at the time these visualizations were created.Two versions of this visualization are provided. The first colors the orbits blue except that TRMM is colored green and GPM is colored red. The second visualization colors all of the orbits blue. || ",
"release_date": "2014-01-27T00:00:00-05:00",
"update_date": "2025-02-02T22:09:02.033180-05:00",
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"alt_text": "NASA's Earth observing fleet including GPM (in red) and TRMM (in green)",
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"title": "NASA Earth Observing Fleet including Landsat 8",
"description": "A newer version of this visualization can be found here.This animation shows the orbits of NASA's current (as of May 2013) fleet of Earth remote sensing observatories. The satellites include components of the A-Train (Aqua, Aura, CloudSat, CALIPSO), two satellites launched in 2011 (Aquarius, Suomi NPP), and nine others (ACRIMSAT, SORCE, GRACE, Jason 1 and 2, Landsat 7, Landsat 8, QuikSCAT, TRMM, and EO-1). These satellites measure tropical rainfall, solar irradiance, clouds, sea surface height, ocean salinity, and other aspects of the global environment. Together, they provide a picture of the Earth as a system.This is an update of visualization #3725. It was created for display on the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) hyperwall, a 5 x 3 array of high-definition displays with a total pixel resolution of 6840 x 2304. The orbits are based on orbital elements with epochs in April of 2013. The visualization spans twenty-nine hours, from 04:10 UT on April 14, 2013 to 09:24 UT on Aril 15, 2013. || ",
"release_date": "2013-06-26T11:00:00-04:00",
"update_date": "2025-03-10T00:03:15.648297-04:00",
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"alt_text": "HD resolution version of NASA's Earth Observing Fleet (including Landsat 8)",
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"url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3227/",
"page_type": "Visualization",
"title": "NASA's Orbiting Earth Observing Fleet (Improved Background)",
"description": "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 have appeared in orbit had it already been launched at that time. This is an HD version that uses an earth with clouds. || ",
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