Summarizing the First Ten Years of NASA's Aqua Mission
<?Pub Dtl?>The Aqua spacecraft was launched on May 4, 2002 with six Earth-observing instruments on board to collect data on a wide variety of Earth system variables. After ten years of on-orbit operations, Aqua has provided data that have contributed to over 2 000 scientific publications, with...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:6011b4ecc58a44a68d9127025c4a6721 2023-05-15T18:18:20+02:00 Summarizing the First Ten Years of NASA's Aqua Mission Claire L. Parkinson 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2239608 https://doaj.org/article/6011b4ecc58a44a68d9127025c4a6721 EN eng IEEE https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6423809/ https://doaj.org/toc/2151-1535 2151-1535 doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2239608 https://doaj.org/article/6011b4ecc58a44a68d9127025c4a6721 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Vol 6, Iss 3, Pp 1179-1188 (2013) Satellite Earth observations Aqua global energy budget water cycle Ocean engineering TC1501-1800 Geophysics. Cosmic physics QC801-809 article 2013 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2239608 2022-12-31T10:49:07Z <?Pub Dtl?>The Aqua spacecraft was launched on May 4, 2002 with six Earth-observing instruments on board to collect data on a wide variety of Earth system variables. After ten years of on-orbit operations, Aqua has provided data that have contributed to over 2 000 scientific publications, with new results on the Earth's energy budget, trace gases and particulate matter in the atmosphere, vegetation on land and in the oceans, and many aspects of the water cycle, including evaporation and transpiration, water vapor, cloud cover, precipitation, the oceans, sea ice and land ice, snow cover, and soil moisture. Additionally, Aqua data have been used to assist in practical applications ranging from weather forecasting to the deployment of firefighters and the routing of aircraft. Although the six-year design life of the satellite has been successfully completed and exceeded, enough fuel remains on Aqua for approximately another ten years of operations. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sea ice Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 6 3 1179 1188 |
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<?Pub Dtl?>The Aqua spacecraft was launched on May 4, 2002 with six Earth-observing instruments on board to collect data on a wide variety of Earth system variables. After ten years of on-orbit operations, Aqua has provided data that have contributed to over 2 000 scientific publications, with new results on the Earth's energy budget, trace gases and particulate matter in the atmosphere, vegetation on land and in the oceans, and many aspects of the water cycle, including evaporation and transpiration, water vapor, cloud cover, precipitation, the oceans, sea ice and land ice, snow cover, and soil moisture. Additionally, Aqua data have been used to assist in practical applications ranging from weather forecasting to the deployment of firefighters and the routing of aircraft. Although the six-year design life of the satellite has been successfully completed and exceeded, enough fuel remains on Aqua for approximately another ten years of operations. |
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