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Terra  

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  • "Terra," Latin for "land," is the name of NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) flagship satellite (formally known as AM-1). The Terra mission was launched on December 18, 1999, and began collecting science data on February 24, 2000. The five sensors aboard Terra are designed to enable scientists to comprehensively examine our world's climate system to observe and measure the changes on the Earth's landscapes, in its oceans, and within the lower atmosphere. One of the main objectives is to determine how life on Earth affects, and is affected by, changes within the climate system, with an emphasis on better understanding the global carbon cycle. The Terra mission is part of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise (ESE). For more information on Terra, see: https://terra.nasa.gov/ For more information on the Earth Observing System (EOS), see: https://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/ (en)

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  • TERRA (en)

Change note

  • 2016-09-13 17:47:29.0 [saritz] insert AltLabel (id: null text: TERRA language code: en); update PrefLabel (Terra);
  • 2016-10-13 16:46:29.0 [saritz] update AltLabel (Terra); update PrefLabel (TERRA);
  • 2018-04-26 16:32:31.0 [sritz] update AltLabel (Earth Observing System (EOS), Terra); update PrefLabel (Terra);
  • 2020-09-30 13:13:13.0 [sritz] update Definition ("Terra," Latin for "land," is the name of NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) flagship satellite (formally known as AM-1). The Terra mission was launched on December 18, 1999, and began collecting science data on February 24, 2000. The five sensors aboard Terra are designed to enable scientists to comprehensively examine our world's climate system to observe and measure the changes on the Earth's landscapes, in its oceans, and within the lower atmosphere. One of the main objectives is to determine how life on Earth affects, and is affected by, changes within the climate system, with an emphasis on better understanding the global carbon cycle. The Terra mission is part of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise (ESE). For more information on Terra, see: https://terra.nasa.gov/ For more information on the Earth Observing System (EOS), see: https://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/); update Definition (https://terra.nasa.gov/); insert Resource (id: null type: provider url: https://terra.nasa.gov/);
  • 2020-09-30 13:14:10.0 [sritz] delete Resource (null);

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https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/d32a5f0f-fedf-4368-b4ba-0ac7b77ce9ca

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