With NASA’s Eyes on the Earth web-based application, you can tag with a US-European satellite as it orbits the Earth, collecting critical measurements of our changing planet.
This was the last time the human eye would keep an eye on the satellite, when the Sentinel-6 Michael Freelich was included in the payload ferries of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. NASA is keeping an eye track on Earth while the spacecraft is now in orbit after unveiling from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Central California on November 21, 21.
The app provides 3D visualization of the sea-level-monitoring satellite, lets you see where it is Right now It glides on a cloud-covered globe.
Learn more about Sentinel-6 Michael Freelich as he collects sea level and atmospheric data from Earth’s orbit. Click anywhere on the image to spin it. See the full interactive experience and fly with the mission in real time on Eyes on the Solar System. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech
Presented in stunning detail, the incarnation of the spacecraft also includes tools that it will use to measure sea level elevation and collect atmospheric data. With a mouse click, you can rotate the satellite to view it from any angle, watch it fly over the earth in real time, or speed it up to advance its entire five-and-a-half-year mission. A few times.
“What we’ve created for Eyes is an engineering model of the real thing. You can get lost in detail – not just how sunlight is reflected from the spacecraft’s solar panels, but how you can track its exact location in orbit. Are. ” , A visualization maker at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “We have data streaming near and far from space missions, and we’ve kept that data working. The Sentinel-6 Michael Freelich is the latest spacecraft to just add to a growing mission.”
As a bonus, the Sentinel-6 Michael Freelich satellite model has also been added to the Webby Award-winning Eyes on the Solar System. The web-based app has a customizable pop-up menu that allows you to zoom in and out where Sentinel-6 Michael Freelich is compared to other Earth-observation satellites. You can place it alongside other spacecraft orbiting other planets.
While you’re exploring, zoom through the rest of the solar system and travel to distant worlds with eyes on exoplanets.
More about the mission
Sentinel-6 will be followed by Michael Freelich’s twin Sentinel-6B in 2025. Together, they build the Sentinel-6 / Jason-CS mission, which was developed by the ESA (European Space Agency) in the context of the European Copernicus program. Led by the European Commission, the European Union’s research meteorological satellites (EUMETSAT), by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), funded by the European Commission and technical assistance from the French National Center for Space Studies (CNE).
JCL, located in Pasadena, has a latex division, built three science devices for each Sentinel-6 satellite: Advanced Microwave Radiometer, Global Navigation Satellite System – Radio Occlusion and Laser Retroreflector Array. NASA has supported projection services, ground systems for the operation of NASA science instruments, science data processors for two of these devices, and the International Ocean Surface Topography Science team. The launch was managed by NASA’s Launch Service Program, based at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
To learn more about Sentinel-6 Michael Freelich, visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/sentinel-6
https://www.esa.int/Sininel-6
https://edefis.eu/ CopernicusFaxesheets
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