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... aboard a Delta 2 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The satellite Aqua was a component of the Earth Observing System (EOS), which also included the Terra satellite launched in December 1999. Aqua's primary purpose was to acquire information about the effects of climate change on the ... . Brazil, Japan, and the United States planned for their joint project Aqua to continue for six years. (NASA JPL, “Aqua Launched To Study Earth's Water Cycle,” news release, 4 May 2002 ...
... collected data about sea-ice variability for comparison with data that NASA's Aqua satellite had collected. The Aqua had launched in May 2002 with a state-of-the-art radiometer for studying water systems. The P3 had carried equipment similar to Aqua's radiometer~ a Japanese-developed microwave scanner~ but because it had flown closer to the ground than the Aqua, the P3 had been able to collect sharper images. P3 flights had traveled over Norton ...
... into weather prediction models the data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) on NASA's Aqua satellite, improving the accuracy range of experimental six-day weather forecasts of the Northern Hemisphere ... called this improvement of 4 percent a significant development in weather forecasting. NASA had launched Aqua on 4 May 2002, enabling the AIRS to produce three-dimensional maps of air and ...
... Mln for Seats on Soyuz Spacecraft,” 29 May 2009.''
NASA announced that, using NASA’s Aqua satellite, researchers had conducted the first global analysis of the health and productivity of ocean plants. Ocean scientists had used Aqua ’s Moderate Resolution Imagine Spectroradiometer (MODIS) to measure remotely the amount of fluorescent redlight emitted ...
... Glacier in Antarctica. "Earth as Art" features images from the Landsat 5 and 7, Terra, Aqua, and Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellites. All are among a fleet of U.S ... these data reveal features and patterns not always visible to the naked eye. The Terra, Aqua, and EO-1 satellites are managed by NASA. Landsat satellites are managed by the U ...
... one uniform method. The map was based on data collected by NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, along with the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite, or ICESat. Michael Lefsky, a ... information from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), an instrument aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites. MODIS observes a broad swath of Earth's surface, even though it does not ...
... Observing System (EOS) spacecraft to follow the Terra satellite, launched in December 1999, and the Aqua satellite, launched in May 2002. NASA had designed the 661-pound (299.8-kilogram) craft ...
... Institute to study snowfall over Wakasa Bay, Japan. The study would use NASA's EOS Aqua satellite in conjunction with research aircraft, which would gather data for the study using the ...
... NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) ~ the two others were Terra, which monitored land, and Aqua, which monitored the planet's water cycle. NASA had created Aura to collect scientific data ...
... of a constellation of Earth-observing satellites known as the A-train, joining the satellites Aqua , Aura, and PARASOL.
''Spacewarn Bulletin, no. 630; NASA, “NASA Launches Satellites for Weather, Climate, Air ...
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