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Post by hairball on Oct 27, 2011 5:55:17 GMT
File-attached is enso34.zip, which contains an Excel 2000 spreadsheet. Did the file upload work??? I can't see an attachment. Thanks for trying though! Might be too big.
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Post by walterdnes on Oct 27, 2011 7:21:22 GMT
File-attached is enso34.zip, which contains an Excel 2000 spreadsheet. Did the file upload work??? Guess it doesn't like Opera. Here goes with Firefox. Attachments:
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Post by hairball on Oct 27, 2011 8:15:21 GMT
Did the file upload work??? Guess it doesn't like Opera. Here goes with Firefox. Works fine.
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Post by throttleup on Oct 28, 2011 11:32:42 GMT
To Whom It May Concern:The NPP advanced environmental satellite to observe our home planet's weather and climate lifted off aboard a Delta 2 rocket at 2:48 a.m. local (5:48 a.m. EDT; 0948 GMT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Source: www.spaceflightnow.com/All burns occurred as scheduled and the spacecraft is in its proper orbit. Spacecraft separation from the booster was nominal and the solar panel has been deployed. Ready for the ride: NPP will carry a diverse payload of scientific instruments to monitor the planet. The 4,600-pound (2,100 kilogram) spacecraft, which is about the size of a small school bus, will cross the equator each afternoon at about 1:30 p.m. local time. It will carry five key instruments: the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS), the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS), the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS), the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), and Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES). Scientists will use ATMS, a 22-channel passive microwave radiometer, to create global models of temperature and moisture profiles that meteorologists will enter into weather forecasting models. CrIS, a Michelson interferometer, will monitor characteristics of the atmosphere, such as moisture and pressure that will be used to produce improvements in both short-and-long term weather forecasting. OMPS, a suite of hyperspectral-imaging spectrometers, will measure Earth's ozone levels, particularly near the poles where ozone levels fluctuate the most. VIIRS, a 22-band radiometer similar to the MODIS instrument, will collect visible and infrared views of Earth's dynamic surface processes, such as wildfires, land changes, and ice movement. VIIRS will also measure atmospheric and oceanic properties, including clouds and sea surface temperature. Finally, CERES, a 3-channel radiometer measuring reflected solar radiation, emitted terrestrial radiation, and total radiation, will monitor the natural and anthropogenic effects on the Earth's total thermal radiation budget. Source: jointmission.gsfc.nasa.gov/misison_details.html
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Post by throttleup on Jan 27, 2012 15:34:31 GMT
A 'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on January 4, 2012. The NPP satellite was renamed 'Suomi NPP' on January 24, 2012 to honor the late Verner E. Suomi of the University of Wisconsin. Suomi NPP is NASA's next Earth-observing research satellite. It is the first of a new generation of satellites that will observe many facets of our changing Earth. Suomi NPP is carrying five instruments on board. The biggest and most important instrument is The Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite or VIIRS. www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2159.html--------------- Makes a nice desktop picture for your computer if you are so inclined...
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Post by numerouno on Jan 27, 2012 21:49:18 GMT
"Suomi" means "Finland" in Finnish! Great!
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Post by throttleup on Jan 27, 2012 23:25:27 GMT
"Suomi" means "Finland" in Finnish! Great! Numo, I am happy for you. Really. Did you look at the image? At full resolution it is quite amazing.
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Post by numerouno on Jan 28, 2012 15:17:46 GMT
Did you look at the image? At full resolution it is quite amazing.Yeah, I ordered a 4000*4000 rez monitor right away, heh. The picture is actually a "stiched" one, I have my doubts on the ability of the NASA to exactly freeze clouds for the entire duration of the orbital times. There are truer pics in the Flickr archives. www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/sets/72157627439487497/show/I wonder if they would produce an Arctic composite when the summer arrives.
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