Earth Observing Fleet (August 2021)

Released Thursday, August 26, 2021

ID: 4931

- Visualizations by:
- Greg Shirah

Earth observing fleet for August 2021 - this version labels the "Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich" spacecraft: Sentinel-6

This animation shows the orbits of NASA's fleet of Earth observing spacecraft that are considered operational as of August 2021. The clouds used in this version are from a high resolution GEOS model run at 10 minute time steps interpolated down to the per-frame level.

Changes to this version include: removal of SORCE and the addition of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich.

Spacecraft included:
Aqua
Aura
CALIPSO: Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation
CYGNSS-1: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System 1
CYGNSS-2: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System 2
CYGNSS-3: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System 3
CYGNSS-4: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System 4
CYNGSS-5: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System 5
CYGNSS-6: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System 6
CYGNSS-7: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System 7
CYGNSS-8: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System 8
Cloudsat
GPM: Global Precipitation Measurement
GRACE-FO-1: Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow On-1
GRACE-FO-2: Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow On-2
ICESat-2
ISS: International Space Station
Landsat 7
Landsat 8
OCO-2: Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2
SMAP: Soil Moisture Passive Active
Suomi NPP: Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership
Sentinel-6 Micael Freilich
Terra

Earth observing fleet from August 2021 - this version labels the "Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich" spacecraft: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

Earth observing fleet without satellite labels

Earth

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio

Visualizers
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
- Ernie Wright (USRA)
- Kel Elkins (USRA)

This page was originally published on Thursday, August 26, 2021.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 12:17 AM EST.

Datasets used in this visualization

CelesTrak Spacecraft Orbit Ephemeris
ID: 454

Type: Ephemeris Dates used: 06/2018

This dataset can be found at: http://celestrak.com
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BMNG (Blue Marble: Next Generation) [Terra and Aqua: MODIS]
ID: 508

Sensor: MODIS

Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).

This dataset can be found at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
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GEOS Atmospheric Model
ID: 665

Type: Model

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