Aqua First Light: AMSR-E Pseudo Color on a Flat Map

  • Released Monday, June 24, 2002
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AMSR-E is a passive microwave radiometer, all the channels are in microwave spectrum, not in visible spectrum. The image is to express the 'water planet' by simple color composite. Three day average data. Using only the descending paths, nightside orbits.

This visualization shows all channels in the microwave spectrum.

A closer look at Asia

A closer look at Asia

AMSR-E is a passive microwave radiometer, all the channels are in microwave spectrum, not in visible spectrum. The image is to express the water planet by simple color composite.

AMSR-E is a passive microwave radiometer, all the channels are in microwave spectrum, not in visible spectrum. The image is to express the water planet by simple color composite.

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio

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