ASTER website informs a broad audience about ASTER data and products. ASTER data are are available from several archives: ...

Terra has consistently orbited Earth from Pole to Pole for over twenty years, collecting important data about Earth’s systems. Crossing the equator at 10:30 am mean local time allowed Terra’s five ...

The Terra Mission recently held a Virtual Community Forum on Terra’s 2022 Orbital Changes, including the 6km altitude lowering that happened in October 2022. See below for an infographic on Terra’s ...

To improve air quality, it is important to know what contributes to polluting the air. Haze comes from a variety of sources. Your skies may be hazy from local traffic, or industry such as for example ...

Fundamentals of Remote Sensing – An interactive online tutorial on remote sensing technology and its applications from the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation, Natural Resource Canada.

For nearly 20 years, the Terra satellite maintained a consistent orbital speed and altitude, resulting in a near-constant morning equator crossing time of around 10:30 AM. However, since February 2020 ...

The CERES website informs a broad audience about CERES data and products. The CERES team has been collecting ERB data since 1997, when the first CERES instrument was launched aboard the Tropical ...

How successfully do rain gauges catch rainfall patterns? Do the satellites record the same patterns of data as the ground-based gauges? How many gauges are required in order to observe regional ...

Dr. James R. Drummond is a leader in building Canadian satellite experiments, such as MOPITT (Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere), which is providing a picture of pollution over the entire ...

Impacts will be minimal, but noticeable in data and imagery. Longer shadows will be visible in images, especially in images of mountain landscapes. The sensors’ views will become narrower leading to ...

Dr. Nyssa Rayne is an Outreach Coordinator on contract at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center through Global Science and Technology. She manages the Terra Mission website, providing the public with ...

Carbon is a fundamental part of the Earth system. It is one of the primary building blocks of all organic matter on Earth and a key element in setting Earth’s temperature. Carbon moves from the ...