Terra Satellite 20-Year Anniversary Instruments and Applications
Music:
“Blackbird” by Magnum Opus [ASCAP]; Atmosphere Music Ltd [PRS]; Volta Music; Universal Production Music
Terra, the flagship Earth observing satellite launched December 18, 1999. Having exceeded its expected design life of six years, Terra is an amazing feat of engineering. Terra is the longest continuously operating satellite to capture simultaneous measurements of Earth from five different sensors. Many of the climate data records produced by Terra’s instruments are the longest ever produced by a single satellite mission. Terra’s five sensors ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS, and MOPITT record data about land surface, water, atmosphere, snow and ice, and Earth’s energy budget.
Copyrights Music:
“Genius Unveiled” [Instrumental] by Daniel Marantz [PRS] & Same Clunie [PRS]; Sound Pocket Music [PRS]; Sound Pocket Music; Universal Production Music
“New Moon Rising” by Erik Jacobsen [TONO] & Lorenzo Castellarin [BMI]; Atmosphere Music Ltd [PRS]; Volta Music; Universal Production Music
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Additional footage provided by Artbeats and Pond5
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Producer
- Liz Wilk (USRA)
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Project support
- Tassia Owen (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Visualizers
- Stuart Levy (AVL NCSA/University of Illinois)
- Robert Patterson (AVL NCSA/University of Illinois)
- A. J. Christensen (AVL NCSA/University of Illinois)
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Technical support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Tuesday, December 10, 2019.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:45 PM EDT.