NASA's Earth Observing Fleet: March 2017

This animation shows the orbits of NASA's fleet of Earth observing spacecraft that are considered operational as of March 2017. New elements in this version include the CYGNSS constellation and DSCOVR at L1. The clouds used in this version are from a high resolution GEOS model run at 10 minute time steps interpolated down to the per-frame level. The following spacecraft are included: Aqua Aura CALIPSO: Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation CYGNSS-1: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System 1 CYGNSS-2: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System 2 CYGNSS-3: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System 3 CYGNSS-4: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System 4 CYNGSS-5: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System 5 CYGNSS-6: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System 6 CYGNSS-7: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System 7 CYGNSS-8: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System 8 Cloudsat DSCOVR: Deep Space Climate Observatory GPM GRACE-1: Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment-1 GRACE-2: Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment-2 ISS: International Space Station Jason 2 Jason 3 Landsat 7 Landsat 8 OCO-2: Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 SMAP: Soil Moisture Passive Active SORCE: Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment Suomi NPP: Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership Terra QuikSCAT Also included: Stars Moon Sun Earth L1: Sun-Earth Lagrange Point

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