Sentences with phrase «from polar orbit»

Juno is a NASA New Frontiers effort to study Jupiter from a polar orbit.

The National Satellite Data Centre, located north of the Arctic Circle in Sodankylä (67 ° 22 N, 26 ° 39 E) lies in an excellent location for receiving data from all polar orbiting spacecraft.

Not exact matches

While the Planet Labs staff ate pancakes that morning in February, two shoebox - size nine - pound pods made in the company's unconventional factory floated from the International Space Station toward a polar orbit of Earth.

The data to assess sea - ice coverage come from polar - orbiting satellites carrying passive - microwave sensors that can see through clouds.

After Jansen's 2015 paper, a U.K. - led group called Project MIDAS began keeping close track of the rift, aided by new data delivered every six days from a pair of European polar - orbiting satellites known as Sentinel - 1.

Jupiter's radiation belts prevent ground - based telescopes from seeing deeper, and so scientists are relying on Juno's daring, swooping polar orbit to provide one of the first views into the deep underworld of Jupiter's atmosphere.

The findings from Akatsuki, in an equatorial orbit, were expected to complement data coming from the European Space Agency's Venus Express, which has been in a polar orbit around the planet since April 2006.

She has also led the agency's work to prepare for a probable gap in data from the series of polar - orbiting satellites that feed observations to NOAA's computer weather models.

Initially the dose is minimized by the spacecraft's polar orbit, which ducks under the radiation belt, but the orbit shifts over time due to the torquing from Jupiter's gravitational field.

From magical rings to loony moons to giant polar hurricanes, in 13 years orbiting Saturn the Cassini probe has exposed many wonders.

Built by Airbus, MetOp - C is the last of the first generation of EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS) series of three polar - orbiting satellites, and is planned to be launched on September 18, 2018, from European Space Center in Kourou, French Guyana, aboard a Soyuz rocket.

It was launched on Jan. 25, 1983, on a Delta rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California into a polar orbit at an altitude of 900 km (550 miles).

Michael, think about what would happen as small variations in earth's orbit changed such that the northern polar region received increasingly less sunlight each summer, preventing all of the previous year's snowfall from melting.

Since then, raw images from an international network of operational geostationary and polar - orbiting meteorological satellites have been routinely processed to develop a global data set of calibrated radiances and derived cloud parameters for climate research.

Since December 1978, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's polar - orbiting satellites have measured upwelling microwave radiation from atmospheric oxygen, and Spencer and Christy use this data to calculate the temperature of broad volumes of the atmosphere.

The OSI SAF currently use data from meteorological satellites both in geostationary and polar orbit.

Data from this family is combined with that from earlier NASA provided Nimbus - 7 spacecraft which flew similar but somewhat different polar orbits.

The UKMO series (as in Figure 2.5 a) does not include polar orbiting satellite data because of possible time - varying biases in them that remain difficult to correct fully (Reynolds, 1993) though the NCEP (National Centers for Environmental Prediction) data (adapted from Smith et al., 1996 and Reynolds and Smith, 1994), starting in 1950, do include satellite data after 1981.

One of the authors of the Monaghan et al. group had previously examined trends in temperature «inferred from skin temperatures from Advanced Very Hi - Res» Radiometer (AVHRR) instruments on polar orbiting satellites» and found «a statistically insignificant cooling trend over continental Antarctica from 1982 to 1998.»

This dataset is an intercalibration of irradiance measurements from a fleet of geostationary and polar orbiting weather satellites, operational since 1983.

The RSS SSM / I geophysical dataset consists of data derived from observations collected by SSM / I instruments carried onboard the DMSP series of polar orbiting satellites.

Satellite data from the HIRS instruments on the NOAA polar orbiting satellites tend («sort of», only in the tropics, and only for part of the time) to support the climate model story.

«Scientists face many challenges when attempting to produce data with long - term stability from sequentially launched, polar - orbiting satellites whose original missions were to support operational forecasting.

Gavin, the methanetracker.org website says this: «All the methane emissions measurements come from the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) instrument, aboard of the MetOp series of polar orbiting satellites of the European Space Agency (ESA).

Since 1978 microwave sounding units (MSUs) on National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration polar orbiting satellites have measured the intensity of upwelling microwave radiation from atmospheric oxygen, which is related to the temperature of broad vertical layers of the atmosphere.

From 1979 to 2005 the microwave sounding units (MSUs) and since 1998 the Advanced Microwave Sounding Units on NOAA polar orbiting satellites have measured the intensity of upwelling microwave radiation from atmospheric oxyFrom 1979 to 2005 the microwave sounding units (MSUs) and since 1998 the Advanced Microwave Sounding Units on NOAA polar orbiting satellites have measured the intensity of upwelling microwave radiation from atmospheric oxyfrom atmospheric oxygen.