
	Where results make sense

Topic: Aqua (satellite)

	CALIPSO - About - A-Train Constellation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		More importantly, CALIPSO will be the first satellite developed to record the vertical distribution of clouds and aerosols, which is used to illustrate their radiative effects on the atmosphere, or their ability to either absorb or reflect energy from the sun.
		The Aqua constellation is a group of five satellites that will fly in loose formation to allow investigations of the Earth system by synergistically combining data from multiple platforms.
		The CloudSat satellite will fly in formation with the CALIPSO satellite, at an average separation of about 12 seconds, and will be controlled to provide coincident radar and lidar observations of clouds.
	www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov /about/atrain.php (1811 words)

	SPACE.com -- Aqua Satellite Planned to Examine Changing Earth
		NASA officials said yesterday that the planned launch later this spring of the Aqua satellite would mark a major milestone in understanding Earth, and its water cycles, and the changing global climate.
		Aqua is the sister satellite to NASA's Terra spacecraft, launched in December of 1999.
		The two satellites are expected to yield important insights into the "diurnal variability," or the daily cycling of key scientific parameters such as precipitation and ocean circulation.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/missions/aqua_satellite_020423.html (410 words)

	USATODAY.com - NASA launches satellite on $1B weather mission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The TRW Inc.-built satellite carries six instruments to monitor the global movement of water —; whether as solid, liquid or gas — as it cycles through the atmosphere, ocean and land.
		Aqua, by measuring as many variables as it is going to be measuring, is going to help us to understand more fully some of those interconnections," said Claire Parkinson, Aqua's project scientist.
		Aqua is also designed to make precise measurements of both atmospheric temperature and humidity to aid in weather forecasting.
	www.usatoday.com /weather/news/2002/2002-05-04-nasa-aqua.htm (477 words)

	CloudSat - Education: Satellites
		Since these satellites are flying in tandem, the set of satellites is referred to as a constellation, or alternatively, as a formation.
		Because the satellites are in close formation with each other, they will pass over a given spot on earth fairly quickly one after the other.
		The name "Aqua", Latin for "water", is tied to the large amount of information that the mission will be collecting about the Earths water cycle, including evaporation from the oceans, water vapor in the atmosphere, clouds, precipitation, soil moisture, sea ice, land ice, and snow cover on the land and ice.
	cloudsat.atmos.colostate.edu /education/satellites (945 words)

	Environment News Service (ENS)
		Aqua, Latin for water, is a NASA Earth Science satellite mission named for the large amount of information that the mission will be collecting about the Earth's water cycle.
		Aqua will make measurements of the Earth at the same time, all the time as the satellite orbits the planet on a nearly polar route, passing over different points on the ground at approximately 1:30 pm and 1:30 am.
		Aqua project scientist Parkinson says, "NASA and its international partners are counting on this powerful observatory to help researchers explore not only how the Earth lives and breathes, but also how the people of the world can best care for the only planet in the solar system known to harbor life."conditioning and ore processing.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/apr2002/2002-04-25-02.asp (685 words)

	eoPortal directory: AQUA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		NASA renamed the EOS/PM-1 satellite to Aqua on Oct. 18, 1999.
		The focus of the Aqua mission is the multi-disciplinary study of the Earth's water cycle, including the interrelated processes (atmosphere, oceans, and land surface) and their relationship to Earth system changes.
		Aqua is part of the "A-train" (Aqua in the lead and Aura at the tail, the nominal separation between Aqua and Aura is about 15 minutes) or "afternoon constellation" (a loose formation flight which started sometime after the Aura launch July 15, 2004).
	directory.eoportal.org /pres_AQUA.html (2566 words)

	Main Hall to Main St. \| The University of Montana
		Aqua will measure the Earth's rainfall, snow, sea ice, temperature, humidity, vegetation, soil moisture and clouds as part of NASA's long-term coordinated study of changes in the global environment.
		It's the sister satellite of NASA's Terra spacecraft, which was launched into space in December 1999 and also uses UM software.
		Aura, the third major EOS satellite, is scheduled to launch in 2004.
	www.umt.edu /urelations/MainHall/502/aqua.htm (343 words)

	2002 News Releases - NASA's Aqua Spacecraft to Study Earth's Water Cycle
		Aqua, due to bring us unprecedented insight into our world's global water cycle, is the latest sibling in a family of Earth Observing System satellites dedicated to studying Earth and expanding our knowledge of global climate change.
		The two satellites, Aqua's afternoon observations and Terra's morning observations, will yield important insights into the "diurnal variability," or the daily cycling of key scientific parameters such as precipitation and ocean circulation.
		Aqua is a joint project between the United States, Japan and Brazil.
	www.jpl.nasa.gov /releases/2002/release_2002_95.html (506 words)

	Aqua satellite cleared for launch - 29 April 2002 - New Scientist
		Aqua will perform a similar job to Envisat, another Earth-monitoring satellite launched by the European Space Agency on 1 March.
		Aqua comprises one part of a NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS), a three-satellite mission to closely monitor Earth's land, sea and atmosphere.
		A satellite named Aura is set to study Earth's atmosphere from orbit in January 2004.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn2226 (346 words)

	SPACE.com -- NASA's Aqua Research Spacecraft Reaches Polar Orbit
		NASA's Aqua spacecraft is prepared for launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on May 4, 2002.
		Aqua is the second in NASA's series of three Earth Observing System spacecraft.
		Aqua -- Latin for water -- safely arrived in its proper orbit and separated from the second stage of its Delta 2 rocket about an hour after its on time 5:54:58 a.m.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/delta2_launch_020504.html (846 words)

	AIRS - News: Features: Four Hurricanes
		On September 14, 2004 in the span of 5 hours, NASA's Aqua satellite "bagged" four hurricanes on four consecutive orbits.
		First the satellite passed over Hurricane Jeanne in the Atlantic as the storm was over the Virgin Islands.
		Aqua is positioned in a near-polar orbit around the Earth at an altitude of 705 km in synchronization with the Sun, with its path over the ground ascending across the equator at the same local time every day, approximately 1:30 p.m.
	www-airs.jpl.nasa.gov /News/Features/FeaturesFourHurricanes (480 words)

	SVS Science Story: Aqua First Light
		Aqua's assets include a suite of six highly advanced instruments, designed to study the Earth in terms of its systemic interactions.
		This high-tech, space-based research observatory is a sibling to another vehicle called Terra, an Earth science satellite launched in December 1999 and another satellite called Aura slated for launch later in the decade.
		Aqua is just one component of NASA's growing Earth Observing System, an integrated fleet of satellites and data collection procedures designed to study the Earth in terms of conjoined, interdependent processes.
	svs.gsfc.nasa.gov /stories/Aqua_20020624/index.html (1262 words)

	Aqua (satellite) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aqua (EOS PM-1) is a multi-national NASA scientific research satellite in orbit around the Earth, studying the precipitation, evaporation, and cycling of water.
		The satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on May 4, 2002 aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket.
		Aqua carries 6 instruments for studies of water on the earth's surface and in the atmosphere:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aqua_(satellite) (356 words)

	Platform Description: Aqua (EOS PM)
		NASA's Aqua satellite, launched in May 2002, is designed to study the earth's physical processes with an emphasis on the water cycle.
		See Aqua Maneuvers for satellite maneuvers and orbital anomalies that may potentially affect the quality of data for specific dates.
		Aqua command and telemetry communications are sent to the EOS Polar Ground Stations (EGPSs) in Svalbard and Alaska.
	nsidc.org /data/docs/daac/aqua_platform.gd.html (686 words)

	Space Today Online - Aqua - NASA's Earth Observing System satellite
		Aqua was the second satellite to be launched in NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) and a sister spacecraft to Terra launched earlier and Aura launched later.
		Aqua is destined to be part of a flotilla of satellites flying in formation in space, including Terra, Aura, CloudSat, Parasol and Calipso.
		NASA describes Aqua as focusing on the multi-disciplinary study of Earth's interrelated processes – atmosphere, oceans, and land surface – and their relationship to changes in the Earth system.
	www.spacetoday.org /Satellites/TerraAqua/AquaStory.html (1239 words)

	NASA - NASA's Aqua Satellite Marks One Year of Viewing Earth
		Aqua was launched on May 4, 2002, and soon after began providing valuable information from its massive data flow, approximately 89 gigabytes a day, allowing scientists to analyze and generate dozens of data products.
		In the past, tracking snowstorms in the Arctic from satellites was particularly difficult because of the underlying ice and snow surfaces.
		Aqua is the latest in a series of the Earth Observing System spacecraft, following the Terra satellite launched in December 1999.
	www.nasa.gov /lb/mission_pages/aqua/one_year.html (883 words)

	SVS Animation 3348 - Aqua Satellite and MODIS Swath
		NASA's Aqua satellite was launched on May 4, 2002 with six Earth-observing instruments on board.
		Aqua circles the Earth every 99 minutes and is in a polar orbit, passing within ten degrees of each pole on every orbit.
		This animation shows the Aqua satellite orbiting for one day, August 27, 2005, showing a set of MODIS measurements taken that day that have been processed to look like a a true-color image of the Earth.
	svs.gsfc.nasa.gov /vis/a000000/a003300/a003348/index.html (320 words)

	EO Library: Aqua
		The Aqua mission builds on NASA's long history of studying the Earth and its atmosphere from the impressive perspective of space.
		Amongst the aims are an integrated understanding of the Earth system at present, an improved understanding of the prominent changes the system has undergone in the past, and improved predictions regarding how the system is likely to change in the future.
		Satellites contribute toward these goals by enabling the collection of global data sets that would be impractical through any other available means.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Library/Aqua (147 words)

	S'COOL: When to Observe Clouds
		The TRMM satellite, launched in November 1997, is in a low inclination orbit which can see mostly the Tropics (actually about 40 S to 40 N latitude).
		The Terra satellite, launched on December 18,1999, is orbiting in a near polar orbit and sees every part of the world during daylight at least once every day.
		Like the Terra satellite, Aqua is also in a near polar orbit and passes over at roughly 13:30 local time, providing another scheduling option for our participants around the globe.
	asd-www.larc.nasa.gov /SCOOL/whenobs.html (355 words)

	Aqua Project Science
		Aqua, Latin for water, is a NASA Earth Science satellite mission named for the large amount of information that the mission is collecting about the Earth's water cycle, including evaporation from the oceans, water vapor in the atmosphere, clouds, precipitation, soil moisture, sea ice, land ice, and snow cover on the land and ice.
		Aqua was launched on May 4, 2002, and has six Earth-observing instruments on board, collecting a variety of global data sets.
		Aqua was the first member launched of a group of satellites termed the Afternoon Constellation, or sometimes the A-Train.
	www.aqua.nasa.gov (319 words)

	Instrument Aboard NASA's Aqua Satellite Joins Twin to Begin Comprehensive Global Coverage
		The different timing of the satellites' pole-to-pole orbits enables scientists to focus on different aspects of the Earth's climate system and to see changes within the system during the course of a day.
		Aqua MODIS will also dramatically improve scientists' ability to monitor the daily (diurnal) cycles of the large-scale burning of plant biomass in regions all across the planet.
		Using Aqua MODIS, scientists can gather more data on how fast and in which direction fires are spreading, as well as how severely a given fire may affect air quality of downwind urban areas.
	www.spacehike.com /aquasatellite.html (759 words)

	NASA'S aqua satellite ships to launch site on Sunday
		Aqua will arrive at Vandenberg on Monday, February 25, where it will undergo final tests and integration with a Delta II rocket for launch in April.
		Aqua, the latest in the Earth Observing System (EOS) series, will collect measurements of rainfall, snow, sea ice, temperature, humidity, vegetation, soil moisture and clouds as part of NASA's long-term, coordinated research study of changes in the global environment.
		Aqua fulfills part of NASA's commitment to studying the Earth as a global system and represents a key contribution by NASA to the U.S. Global Change Research Program.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2002-02/nsfc-nas022202.php (275 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)