Mission Proposal: Polar GOES-like Spacecraft (Riding the Spacecraft - Animated Swaths)

  • Released Friday, October 1, 2004
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This visualization was created to support a mission proposal led by Lars Peter Riishojgaard. This mission would fly a GOES-like spacecraft in a polar elliptical orbit around the Earth providing a large percentage of observing time for northern polar regions. This version of the visualization has the camera riding the orbit as the spacecraft would with a MODIS swath and GOES footprint animating. The MODIS swath is colored red, and the GOES footprint is colored light gray. This shows how this proposal would provide more continuous coverage of north polar regions than MODIS and GOES can provide.

Mission proposal for polar orbiting cloud sensor (w- swaths)

Mission proposal view with MODIS and GOES footprints #1

Mission proposal view with MODIS and GOES footprints #1

Mission proposal view with MODIS and GOES footprints #2

Mission proposal view with MODIS and GOES footprints #2

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
The Blue Marble Next Generation data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC) and NASA's Earth Observatory.

This page was originally published on Friday, October 1, 2004.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:56 PM EDT.

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