Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection
Title:
Radar Image, Hokkaido, Japan
Original Caption Released with Image:
The southeast part of the island of Hokkaido, Japan, is an area dominated by volcanoes and volcanic caldera. The active Usu Volcano is at the lower right edge of the circular Lake Toya-Ko and near the center of the image. The prominent cone above and to the left of the lake is Yotei Volcano with its summit crater. The city of Sapporo lies at the base of the mountains at the top of the image and the town of Yoichi -- the hometown of SRTM astronaut Mamoru Mohri -- is at the upper left edge. The bay of Uchiura-Wan takes up the lower center of the image. In this image, color represents elevation, from blue at the lowest elevations to white at the highest. The radar image has been overlaid to provide more details of the terrain. Due to a processing problem, an island in the center of this crater lake is missing and will be properly placed when further SRTM swaths are processed. The horizontal banding in this image is a processing artifact that will be removed when the navigation information collected by SRTM is fully calibrated. This image was acquired by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, launched on February 11, 2000. SRTM used the same radar instrument that comprised the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) that flew twice on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1994. SRTM was designed to collect three-dimensional measurements of the Earth's surface. To collect the 3-D data, engineers added a 60-meter-long(200-fo ot) mast, installed additional C-band and X-band antennas, and improved tracking and navigation devices. The mission is a cooperative project between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and the German and Italian space agencies. It is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, for NASA's Earth Science Enterprise, Washington, DC. Size: 100 by 150 kilometers (62 by 93 miles)
Location: 42.5 deg. North lat., 140.3 deg. East lon.
Orientation: North towards upper left
Image Data: SRTM
Original Data Resolution: SRTM 30 meters (99 feet)
Date Acquired: February 17, 2000
Image: NASA/JPL/NIMA
Produced By:
JPL
Mission:
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
Spacecraft:
Space Shuttle Endeavour
Target Name:
Earth
Is a satellite of:
Sol (our sun)
Instrument:
C-Band Interferometric Radar
Product Size:
1416 samples x 2113 lines
Primary Data Set:
SRTM Mission
Producer ID:
MRPS96244
facet_who:
Mamoru Mohri
facet_what:
Sun
facet_what:
Crater
facet_what:
Earth
facet_what:
C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
facet_what:
Spaceborne Imaging Radar
facet_what:
Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
facet_what:
Space Shuttle Endeavour
facet_what:
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
facet_what:
SRTM
facet_what:
C-Band Interferometric Radar
facet_what:
Space Shuttle Orbiter
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
facet_where:
Washington
facet_where:
Japan
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_when:
1994
facet_when:
February 11, 2000
facet_when:
February 17, 2000
facet_when_year:
1994
facet_when_year:
2000
Image #:
PIA02751
UID:
SPD-PHOTJ-PIA02751
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Radar Image, Hokkaido, Japan