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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Collection
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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Collection
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SRTM/artist concept
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SRTM/artist concept
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NASA/JPL-Caltech
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NASA/JPL-Caltech
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This is a computer-generated view of the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) scheduled to fly in May 2000. SRTM will use the same radar instrument that comprised the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C(SIR-C) that flew twice on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1994. The mission is designed to collect three- dimensional measurements of nearly 80 percent of the Earth's land surface, except near the poles, with an accuracy of better than 16 meters (53 feet). The regions to be mapped are home to about 95 percent of the world's population. To collect the 3-D data, engineers will add an almost 60-meter-long (200-foot) mast, additional C-band imaging antenna and improved tracking and navigation devices to the SIR-C hardware to create a radar interferometer. The mission is a cooperative project between NASA and the Defense Mapping Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense, to be managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of Mission to Planet Earth.
Description
This is a computer-generated view of the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) scheduled to fly in May 2000. SRTM will use the same radar instrument that comprised the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C(SIR-C) that flew twice on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1994. The mission is designed to collect three- dimensional measurements of nearly 80 percent of the Earth's land surface, except near the poles, with an accuracy of better than 16 meters (53 feet). The regions to be mapped are home to about 95 percent of the world's population. To collect the 3-D data, engineers will add an almost 60-meter-long (200-foot) mast, additional C-band imaging antenna and improved tracking and navigation devices to the SIR-C hardware to create a radar interferometer. The mission is a cooperative project between NASA and the Defense Mapping Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense, to be managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of Mission to Planet Earth.
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7/15/96
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P-47008
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P-47008
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1996
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JPL Archives
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JPL Archives
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Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
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Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
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SRTM
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Spaceborne Imaging Radar
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Spaceborne Imaging Radar
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Space Shuttle Endeavour
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Space Shuttle Endeavour
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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