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Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR; formerly known as Triana, unofficially known as GoreSat [3]) is a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) space weather, space climate, and Earth observation satellite. It was launched by SpaceX on a Falcon 9 v1.1 launch vehicle on 11 February 2015, from Cape Canaveral. [4]
At 1 million miles from Earth, the distant DSCOVR satellite, aka the Deep Space Climate Observatory, recently captured the moon's eerie shadow over Antarctica. The intriguing, relatively rare ...
NASA 2015 Deep Space Climate Observatory. Designed to study the Sun-lit side of Earth from the L1 Lagrange point. [8] DubaiSat-1 and 2: Active Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) 2009 EarthCARE: Active ESA and JAXA 2024 Designed to study clouds and aerosols. [9] Elektro-L No. 1, 2, and 3: Active Russia's Roscosmos: 2011 Fengyun 2D to 4A ...
On July 21, 2015, NASA released a new Blue Marble photograph taken by a U.S. Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a solar weather and Earth observation satellite that was launched in February 2015 and provided a near-continuous view of the entire sunlit-side of the Earth.
The storm arrived at Earth moving at 1.5 million miles per hour (about 2.4 million kilometers per hour), and reached the Deep Space Climate Observatory and the Advanced Composition Explorer ...
NASA: Launched 1997. Has fuel to orbit near L 1 until 2024. Operational as of 2019. [24] Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) Sun–Earth L 1: NASA: Launched on 11 February 2015. Planned successor of the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) satellite. LISA Pathfinder (LPF) Sun–Earth L 1: ESA, NASA
The importance of space climate research has been recognized, in particular, by NASA which launched a special space mission Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) [4] dedicated to monitoring of space climate. [5] New results, ideas and discoveries in the field of Space Climate are published in a focused peer-review research Journal of Space ...
Number 3.Utah potash mining ponds. Vast expanses of the valuable potassium-rich mineral, which is often used to fertilize crops, are drawn from the Earth at this site.