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Teacher Background: How Satellites Work
(600 miles), the sensors scan the Earth's entire surface over a 24-hour period. The sensors are sensitive to visible light and infrared (IR) radiation. As each NOAA polar-orbiting satellite orbits the Earth, it sends back a constant stream of data. Instruments on board the ...
U.S. Reconnaissance Satellites: Domestic Targets
Security that his department resolving their concerns was the first priority, before taking actions (such as advertising for personnel) to turn the NAO from a concept into an active entity. The use of classified satellite reconnaissance systems - particularly image...
NASA Views Landing Site Through Eyes of Future Moon Crew
floors two and a half times deeper than the Grand Canyon. There are challenges that come with such rugged terrain, and these data will be an invaluable tool for advance planning of lunar missions." Three times during a six-month period in 2006,...
KAGUYA (SELENE) Composition of 3-D Movies with Terrain Camera Images
satellite. It can take three-dimensional (stereo) images of the Moon's globe with a world's first super high definition of 10 m. Three-dimensional terrain images acquired by TC high resolution stereo pair cameras are important data to study the evolu...
Smithsonian: Looking @ Earth
Looking @ Earth -- Gallery Home Page Located on the first floor of the National Air And Space Museum in Gallery 110, "Looking At Earth" shows visitors how views of our planet from above have helped us to better understand the Earth. Examples of satellite...
Smithsonian: Looking at Earth
Looking @ Earth -- Gallery Home Page Located on the first floor of the National Air And Space Museum in Gallery 110, "Looking At Earth" shows visitors how views of our planet from above have helped us to better understand the Earth. Examples of satellite...
KAGUYA (SELENE) Took Images of the Moon and Released the Rstar
Tanegashima Space Center. Both the KAGUYA and Rstar are confirmed to be in good health. Images of the separation of the Rstar taken by the KAGUYA onboard camera are shown in Attachment 1. In addition, Moon images taken by one of the KAGUYA's onboard cameras, the ...
New NASA Moon Mission Begins Integration of Science Instruments
RF Technology Demonstration experiment sponsored by NASA's Exploration Systems and Space Operations Mission Directorates. The miniaturized radar will be used to image the polar regions and search for water ice. The communications capabilities of the system also...
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