The Earth‐Observing Aqua Satellite Mission: 20 Years and Counting
Abstract The Earth‐observing Aqua spacecraft was launched on 4 May 2002 and has now completed 20 years of collecting and transmitting data regarding the Earth's radiation budget, atmosphere, oceans, land, and ice. Although launched with a design life of 6 years, four of its instruments continue...
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| description | Abstract The Earth‐observing Aqua spacecraft was launched on 4 May 2002 and has now completed 20 years of collecting and transmitting data regarding the Earth's radiation budget, atmosphere, oceans, land, and ice. Although launched with a design life of 6 years, four of its instruments continue to operate and provide high‐quality data streams more than 20 years after launch. The Aqua data are readily available to users worldwide and have been used in thousands of scientific publications and in numerous practical applications, including weather forecasting, air‐quality assessments, and monitoring of forest fires, dust storms, volcanic ash plumes, oil spills, and crop yields. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d1aaad9f5ed344609438ee65c00463372022-12-22T04:27:11ZengAmerican Geophysical Union (AGU)Earth and Space Science2333-50842022-09-0199n/an/a10.1029/2022EA002481The Earth‐Observing Aqua Satellite Mission: 20 Years and CountingClaire L. Parkinson0Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD USAAbstract The Earth‐observing Aqua spacecraft was launched on 4 May 2002 and has now completed 20 years of collecting and transmitting data regarding the Earth's radiation budget, atmosphere, oceans, land, and ice. Although launched with a design life of 6 years, four of its instruments continue to operate and provide high‐quality data streams more than 20 years after launch. The Aqua data are readily available to users worldwide and have been used in thousands of scientific publications and in numerous practical applications, including weather forecasting, air‐quality assessments, and monitoring of forest fires, dust storms, volcanic ash plumes, oil spills, and crop yields.https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EA002481remote sensingAqua satelliteEarth observing systemsatellite Earth observations |
| spellingShingle | Claire L. Parkinson The Earth‐Observing Aqua Satellite Mission: 20 Years and Counting Earth and Space Science remote sensing Aqua satellite Earth observing system satellite Earth observations |
| title | The Earth‐Observing Aqua Satellite Mission: 20 Years and Counting |
| title_full | The Earth‐Observing Aqua Satellite Mission: 20 Years and Counting |
| title_fullStr | The Earth‐Observing Aqua Satellite Mission: 20 Years and Counting |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Earth‐Observing Aqua Satellite Mission: 20 Years and Counting |
| title_short | The Earth‐Observing Aqua Satellite Mission: 20 Years and Counting |
| title_sort | earth observing aqua satellite mission 20 years and counting |
| topic | remote sensing Aqua satellite Earth observing system satellite Earth observations |
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