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Images & Animations
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Credit
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Aqua First Light: AMSR-E Pseudo Color on a Flat Map
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.
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.
Metadata
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Sensor
Aqua/AMSR-E -
Animation ID
2469 -
Video ID
SVS2002-0022 -
Start Timecode
01:01:18:00 -
End Timecode
01:01:46:12 -
Animator
Stuart A. Snodgrass -
Studio
SVS -
Visualization Date
2002/06/20 -
Scientist
Keiji Imaoka (EORC/NASDA) -
Keywords
True Color -
DLESE Subject
Chemical oceanography, Hydrology, Physical oceanography -
Data Date
2002/06/02, 2002/06/03, 2002/06/04 -
Animation Type
Regular