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Terra (EOS AM-1) is a multi-national NASA
NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, responsible for the nation's public list of space agencies....
 scientific research satellite
Satellite

In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an Physical body which has been placed into orbit by human endeavor. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....
 in a sun-synchronous orbit
ORBit

ORBit is a Common Object Request Broker Architecture 2.4 compliant Object Request Broker . It features mature C , C++ and Python bindings, and less developed bindings for Perl, Lisp , Pascal , Ruby , and Tcl....
 around the Earth
Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun. Earth is the largest of the terrestrial planets in the Solar System in diameter, mass and density. It is also referred to as the World and Wiktionary:Terra.Note that by International Astronomical Union convention, the term "Terra" is used for naming extensive land masses, rather...
. It is the flagship of the Earth Observing System
Earth Observing System

The Earth Observing System is a program of NASA comprising a series of artificial satellite missions and scientific instruments in Earth orbit designed for long-term global observations of the land surface, biosphere, earth's atmosphere, and oceans of the Earth....
 (EOS).

The name "Terra" comes from the Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 word for earth. The satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base
Vandenberg Air Force Base

Vandenberg Air Force Base is a United States military installation with a spaceport, in Santa Barbara County, California, California, United States....
 on December 18, 1999 aboard an Atlas IIAS vehicle and began collecting data on February 24, 2000.

Terra carries a payload of five remote sensors designed to monitor the state of Earth's environment
Natural environment

The natural environment, commonly referred to simply as the environment, is a term that encompasses all life and non-living things occurring nature on Earth or some region thereof....
 and ongoing changes in its climate
Climate

Climate encompasses the temperatures, humidity, atmospheric pressure, winds, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and numerous other Meteorology elements in a given region over long periods of time, as opposed to the term weather, which refers to current activity of these same elements....
 system:






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Terra (EOS AM-1) is a multi-national NASA
NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, responsible for the nation's public list of space agencies....
 scientific research satellite
Satellite

In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an Physical body which has been placed into orbit by human endeavor. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....
 in a sun-synchronous orbit
ORBit

ORBit is a Common Object Request Broker Architecture 2.4 compliant Object Request Broker . It features mature C , C++ and Python bindings, and less developed bindings for Perl, Lisp , Pascal , Ruby , and Tcl....
 around the Earth
Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun. Earth is the largest of the terrestrial planets in the Solar System in diameter, mass and density. It is also referred to as the World and Wiktionary:Terra.Note that by International Astronomical Union convention, the term "Terra" is used for naming extensive land masses, rather...
. It is the flagship of the Earth Observing System
Earth Observing System

The Earth Observing System is a program of NASA comprising a series of artificial satellite missions and scientific instruments in Earth orbit designed for long-term global observations of the land surface, biosphere, earth's atmosphere, and oceans of the Earth....
 (EOS).

The name "Terra" comes from the Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 word for earth. The satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base
Vandenberg Air Force Base

Vandenberg Air Force Base is a United States military installation with a spaceport, in Santa Barbara County, California, California, United States....
 on December 18, 1999 aboard an Atlas IIAS vehicle and began collecting data on February 24, 2000.

Terra carries a payload of five remote sensors designed to monitor the state of Earth's environment
Natural environment

The natural environment, commonly referred to simply as the environment, is a term that encompasses all life and non-living things occurring nature on Earth or some region thereof....
 and ongoing changes in its climate
Climate

Climate encompasses the temperatures, humidity, atmospheric pressure, winds, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and numerous other Meteorology elements in a given region over long periods of time, as opposed to the term weather, which refers to current activity of these same elements....
 system:
  • ASTER
    Aster

    Aster can refer to one of the following:*Aster , a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae*Callistephus, another genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, commonly called Aster or Chinese Aster...
     (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer)
  • CERES
    Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System

    Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System is NASA climatological experiment from Earth orbit.The CERES are scientific satellite instruments, part of the NASA's Earth Observing System...
     (Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System)
  • MISR
    MISR

    MISR is a scientific instrument on the Terra satellite launched by NASA on December 18, 1999. The device is designed to measure the solar radiation reflected by the Earth system in various directions and spectral bands; it became operational in February 2000....
     (Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer)
  • MODIS
    MODIS

    MODIS is a Payload scientific instrument launched into Earth orbit by NASA in 1999 on board the Terra Satellite, and in 2002 on board the Aqua satellite....
     (Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer)
  • MOPITT
    MOPITT

    MOPITT is a Payload scientific instrument launched into Earth orbit by NASA on board the Terra satellite in 1999. It is designed to monitor changes in pollution patterns and its effect in the lower earth's atmosphere of the Earth....
     (Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere)


The data collected by Terra will ultimately become a new, 15-year global data set.

See also

  • Aqua
    Aqua (satellite)

    Aqua is a multi-national NASA scientific research satellite in orbit around the Earth, studying the Precipitation , evaporation, and Water cycle of water....
  • Aura
    Aura (satellite)

    'Aura' is a multi-national NASA scientific research satellite in orbit around the Earth, studying the Earth's ozone layer, air quality and climate....


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