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	Terra (satellite) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The satellite was from Vandenberg Air Force Base on December 18 1999 aboard an Atlas IIAS vehicle and began collecting data on February 24 2000.
		Terra carries a payload of five remote designed to monitor the state of Earth's environment and ongoing changes in its climate system:
		Terra is currently one of four EOS satellites in with and fifteen more planned over the four years.
	www.freeglossary.com /TERRA_satellite (570 words)

	Air Spray: NASA's Terra Mission Studies Aerosols
		The purpose of the Terra mission is to study climate change across the globe for the next 15 years.
		Terra is the "flagship" of the Earth Observing System (EOS), an international study of planet Earth.
		Terra will open up new ways in which Earth's lands, oceans, air, ice, and life can be studied and viewed as a whole system.
	kids.earth.nasa.gov /terra/index.html (81 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Atlas Launch Report \| Mission Status Center
		Terra is the first in a series of Earth-studying satellites NASA plans to launch over the next decade.
		Terra's launch was delayed several times in the last two years by spacecraft-related problems, the need to double-check the rocket's upper stage engines, and more recently by ground software troubles on Thursday and high altitude winds today.
		Terra is a $1.5 billion mission to study the Earth's environment with a suite of five science instruments.
	www.spaceflightnow.com /atlas/ac141/status.html (3672 words)

	Terra (satellite) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Terra (EOS AM-1) is a multi-national NASA scientific research satellite in orbit around the Earth.
		The name "Terra" comes from the Latin word for land.
		The data collected by Terra began collecting what will ultimately become a new, 15-year global data set.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Terra_(satellite) (127 words)

	SPACE.com -- $1.3 Billion Terra Satellite Reaches Final Orbit
		Terra, a NASA satellite scientists say will allow them to study the Earths land, oceans and atmosphere as a complete interrelated system, has reached its final orbit more than two months after its launch.
		Terra, or EOS AM, is the flagship and first to launch of a series of 10 satellites that will make up NASAs Earth Observing System.
		Terra will collect spectral data from the visible to the infrared from the entire surface of the globe every 16 days, amassing on a daily basis 850 gigabytes 100,000 encyclopedia volumes worth of measurements.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/planetearth/terra_update_000224.html (530 words)

	CNN - NASA postpones Terra satellite launch until Saturday - December 17, 1999
		It was the second postponement for the Terra satellite in as many days.
		Terra is the flagship of the Earth Observing System, a series of spacecraft that NASA plans to put in orbit to measure how Earth's oceans, air, land and people function together.
		Moreover, Terra will also be able to measure the amount of incoming energy from the sun, minus outgoing energy from reflected sunlight and emitted heat.
	www.cnn.com /1999/TECH/space/12/17/terra.delay (260 words)

	SPACE.com -- Terra Satellite to Provide Global Checkup
		NASA plans to launch a $1.3 billion satellite next month that scientists say will, for the first time, give them the tools to comprehensively study the Earth as a system, including the delicate interplay of its lands, oceans and atmosphere.
		The Terra satellite is scheduled to be launched December 16 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California aboard an Atlas 2-AS rocket.
		Terra, originally known as EOS AM 1, will pass the equator each orbit at 10:30 a.m., when cloud cover is minimal over the globes landmasses.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/planetearth/terra_checkup_991123.html (582 words)

	SPACE.com -- NASAs $1.3-Billion Climate Satellite Terra Launched
		Terra, or EOS AM, is the first and likely flagship of a series of 10 satellites that make up NASAs Earth Observing System.
		Terra and subsequent EOS satellites will look not at short-term weather, but at the much longer-term climate of the world, a view that is both global and dynamic.
		Among the questions scientists hope Terra will answer is whether the growing season in the Northern Hemisphere is lengthening, a controversial theory with far-ranging implications for not only agriculture but all of human activity in that region of the world.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/launches/terra_launch_991218.html (1433 words)

	Millennium Space Week Clouds-Terra Satellite information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The first satellites were used mostly to take the measure of the new space environment and blaze a path for communications, weather, and navigation satellites and manned spaceflight.
		The majority of satellites have been built by Russia and the United States, but the countries of Western Europe in the European Space Agency, Japan, China, India, Canada, Israel, Brazil and others are actively engaged in satellite development.
		Satellites are part of daily life, used for communications, weather forecasting, navigation, observing land, sea and air, other scientific research, and military reconnaissance.
	www.millennium.scps.k12.fl.us /spaceweekbrad/satellite.html (404 words)

	Newsletter #51 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		NASA has announced that data from the new Terra satellite is now available to the public.
		This satellite is the "flagship" of a series of satellites that will study long term global climate change.
		Terra is part of the Earth Observing System (EOS), which is the centerpiece of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise (ESE).
	hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu /newsletters/newsletter51.html (163 words)

	Terra Satellite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		CAPTION: This map of sea surface temperatures was produced using MODIS data on the Terra satellite.
		The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA's Terra satellite captured this image of one such landslide on October 11...
		Terra is currently one of four EOS satellites in orbit, with and fifteen more planned over the next four years.
	www.wikiverse.org /terra-satellite (255 words)

	Successful launch of the Terra satellite
		The TERRA satellite was previously known as EOS AM-1, since it is the first EOS satellite on a "morning" sun-synchronous orbit, crossing the equator at 10:30 local time (descending node) and a 705 km altitude.
		Terra, the flagship EOS satellite namely provides key measurements of the physical and radiative properties of clouds; air-land and air-sea exchanges of energy, carbon, and water; trace gases; and volcanoes, through the observations made by the five following instruments.
		TERRA carries two identical instruments: one operating in a cross-track mode and the other in a biaxial scan mode.
	medias.obs-mip.fr /www/Reseau/Lettre/12/en/systemes/terra.html (855 words)

	Earth Observing System Validation
		The goal of these satellite platforms is to answer many of the outstanding questions regarding climate and climate change on our home planet.
		Terra, as the first satellite is now known, is collecting high quality data concerning many aspects of the earth system.
		A satellite sensor observes upwelling energy from the Earth's surface and atmosphere.
	www.met.utah.edu /mace/homepages/research/eos.html (293 words)

	Terra Status Report #1 \| SpaceRef - Your Space Reference
		Terra is the "flagship" to the Earth Observing System series of satellites, part of a precedent setting program designed to provide information on the health of the Planet, and an understanding of its complex interactions in a manner that has scientists on the edge of their seat.
		Terra's flight computer and control subsystem quickly oriented the spacecraft so that Terra's instrument suite tracks the Earth, a task it will laboriously perform over the next six years.
		The primary objective of the Terra Mission is to simultaneously study clouds, water vapor, small particles in the atmosphere (called "aerosol" particles), trace gases, land surface and oceanic properties, as well as the interaction between them and their effect on the Earth's energy budget and climate.
	www.spaceref.com /news/viewpr.html?pid=380 (631 words)

	NASA's Terra Satellite Tracks Global Pollution
		The measurements were made by the Mopitt instrument on the Terra satellite.
		Both studies used instruments on NASA's Terra satellite to examine trends in global carbon monoxide (CO) and fine particulate (aerosol) pollution.
		The fires led to a 'dirty' 2002/03 winter atmosphere in the Northern Hemisphere with high amounts of CO and aerosol.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/eo-04zy.html (982 words)

	Top Story - Ground Hog Day and Terra Satellite - February 02, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		NASA SATELLITE SAW MORE U. This Groundhog's Day Punxsutawney Phil may see his shadow, which would indicate 6 more weeks of winter and likely more snow, according to legend in the Pennsylvania town, but a NASA satellite confirms that it has already been snowier than usual this winter.
		Hall noted that results from MODIS show that, "Snowcover was greater than average in the western and Midwestern portions of the country for the month of November." Complementing the snowfall were record cold temperatures for November and December 2000 throughout the United States, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
		Terra was launched on December 18, 1999 and began collecting data on February 24, 2000, part of a 15-year global data set on which to base scientific investigations about the Earth.
	www.gsfc.nasa.gov /topstory/20010202snow.html (864 words)

	CNN - Stethoscope in the sky: Terra launched to track Earth's health - December 18, 1999
		Within minutes, the satellite dropped its rocket boosters as planned, separated from the main rocket and raced toward orbit, prompting a burst of applause from NASA controllers back on Earth.
		Having a satellite with multiple instruments will give scientists a "fresh view that could never have been obtained before," he said.
		Data from the Terra satellite will be downlinked by the Tracking and Data Relay Satellites that are also used to monitor space shuttles.
	www.cnn.com /1999/TECH/space/12/18/terra.01/index.html (660 words)

	Terra (satellite) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on December 18, 1999 aboard an Atlas IIAS vehicle and began collecting data on February 24, 2000.
		Terra carries a payload of five remote sensors designed to monitor the state of Earth's environment and ongoing changes in its climate system:
		This page was last modified 21:06, 2 May 2005.
	www.newlenox.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Terra_(satellite) (167 words)

	NASA: TERRA (EOS AM-1)
		In February 2000, Terra opened its Earth-viewing doors to begin one of humanity’s largest and most ambitious science missions ever undertaken — to give Earth its first physical check-up.
		Terra is a multi-national, multi-disciplinary mission involving partnerships with the aerospace agencies of Canada and Japan.
		JPL built and manages one instrument on Terra and manages another jointly with Japan.
	terra.nasa.gov (532 words)

	NASA's terra satellite tracks global pollution
		Data from NASA's Terra satellite is adding to our understanding of how pollution spreads around the globe.
		Terra and other NASA Earth observing satellites provide vital tools for monitoring global levels, sources and destinations of CO and other pollutants.
		Due to topography, Terra revealed pollution could only escape upward or through openings in the landscape.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-05/nsfc-nts051804.php (595 words)

	missionspace.info // NASA's Terra Satellite Tracks Global Pollution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		David Edwards will discuss "Observations of Carbon Monoxide and Aerosol from the Terra Satellite: Northern Hemisphere Variability," on Thursday at 8:45 a.m.
		By using two complementary instruments on Terra, Edwards was able to tell the difference between pollutants originating from wildfires and those from urban and industrial sources.
		NASA's Earth Science Enterprise is dedicated to understanding the Earth as an integrated system and applying Earth System Science to improve prediction of climate, weather, and natural hazards using the unique vantage point of space.
	www.spaceflightweb.com /ms/news/spaceimpact/terra5-18.html (586 words)

	Goleta Air and Space Museum: Atlas IIAS/Terra Launch, December 18, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Terra Satellite was postponed on Thursday, December 16, 1999.
		The Atlas-IIAS carrying the Terra Satellite lifted off at 10:57 A.M. PST on Saturday December 18, 1999.
		The early part of the book focuses on the Soviet-American race to develop the ICBM in the 1950s, and the first satellites, with particular attention paid to the events and reactions that followed the flight of Sputnik I in 1957 and the subsequent missile gap era.
	www.air-and-space.com /19991218%20Atlas%20IIAS.htm (468 words)

	Terra Satellite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Terra satellite is one of the four EOS (Earth Observing System) satellites currently in orbit.
		The EOS satellites are on a mission to gather information on global data, over the next fifteen years.
		The EOS mission is made up three main parts: 1) a series of satellites specially designed to study the complexities of glabal change; 2) an advanced computer network for processing, storing, and distributing data (called EOSDIS); and 3) teams of scientists all over the world who will study the data.
	www.millennium.scps.k12.fl.us /spaceweeksean/terrahome.html (224 words)

	EO Library: Terra Spacecraft Fact Sheet
		Physically, the EOS Terra spacecraft is roughly the size of a small school bus.
		The satellite's orbit will be perpendicular to the direction of Earth's spin, so that the viewing swaths from each overpass can be compiled into whole global images
		The sensors on EOS Terra will not actively scan the surface (such as with laser beams or microwave pulses).
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Library/AM1 (781 words)

	Terra (satellite) Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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	EO News: Terra Satellite Data Confirm Unusually Warm, Dry U.S. Winter - April 8, 2002
		New maps of land surface temperature and snow cover produced by NASA’s Terra satellite show this year’s winter was warmer than last year’s, and the snow line stayed farther north than normal.
		Launched December 18, 1999, NASA’s Terra satellite is the flagship of the Earth Observing System series of satellites, part of NASA’s Earth Science Enterprise, a long-term research program dedicated to understanding how human-induced and natural changes affect our global environment.
		Terra MODIS observations are expected to continue through at least 2004.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NasaNews/2002/200204088344.html (911 words)

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