Worldview Snapshots
Worldview Snapshots is a lightweight tool for creating image snapshots from a selection of popular NASA satellite imagery layers. You can preview and download imagery in different band combinations and add overlays on the imagery of active …
Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) - NASA
2023年9月25日 · NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration will use laser communications systems to transmit data from space to Earth. Below are six things you need to know about NASA’s revolutionary LCRD mission. Using NASA’s first two-way, end-to-end laser relay system, pictures and videos of cherished pets flew through space over laser communications…
Data Tool in Focus: NASA Worldview - Earthdata
2024年3月28日 · NASA Worldview lets users interactively explore more than 1,000 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers provided through NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services and then download the underlying data. In addition, many of the imagery layers available in Worldview are updated within three hours of observation, essentially showing Earth as ...
Optical Communications - NASA
2023年9月27日 · With laser communications, NASA can significantly accelerate the data transfer process and empower more discoveries. Optical, or laser, communications will enable 10 to 100 times more data transmitted back to Earth than current radio frequency systems.
Guide to Using NASA Worldview in the Classroom
An overlay is a partially transparent layer that sits on top of the base layer. It contains the satellite data you are interested in investigating. There are three default overlays (Place Labels, Coastlines/Borders/Roads, and Coastlines) that you can view by clicking the
NASA’s Tech Demo Streams First Video From Deep Space via Laser
2023年12月18日 · The laser communications demo, which launched with NASA’s Psyche mission on Oct. 13, is designed to transmit data from deep space at rates 10 to 100 times greater than the state-of-the-art radio frequency systems used by deep space missions today. As Psyche travels to the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, the technology ...
Space Lasers | ICESat-2 - NASA
ATLAS features new technologies that allow it to collect a more detailed, precise picture of the heights of the planet’s ice, vegetation, land surface, water and clouds. As it orbits over the poles, ATLAS has three major tasks: Send pulses of laser light to the ground, collect the returning photons in a telescope, and record the photon travel time.
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NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Worldview mapping application provides the capability to interactively browse over 800 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and then download the underlying data. Many of the available imagery layers are updated within three hours of observation,
NASA’s Laser Comms Demo Makes Deep Space Record, …
2024年10月3日 · NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstration broke yet another record for laser communications this summer by sending a laser signal from Earth to NASA’s Psyche spacecraft about 290 million miles (460 million kilometers) away. That’s the same distance between our planet and Mars when the two planets are farthest apart.