Want a 5400×2700 pixel image of our planet earth? Want to celebrate the birthday of the satellite that produced it? Then click on through to the NASA website below as they talk about Terra, a 10 year old satellite that is still producing good science.
On February 24, 2000, after two months of post-launch testing, sensors on NASA’s Terra satellite began opening their shutters and making their first observations. The mission ushered in a decade of observations from NASA’s Earth Observing System, a coordinated series of satellites that monitor how Earth is changing.
The five images of the earth below represent Vegetation, Carbon Monoxide, Aerosols, Elevation, and Net Radiation.
