The ASTER Earth Imaging Instrument

Credit: ASTER Science Team/NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, · Download full size image

Artist's rendition of the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument onboard the Terra satellite. The ASTER instrument consists of three separate instrument subsystems. Each subsystem operates in a different spectral region, has its own telescope(s), and is built by a different Thermal Infrared (TIR). The Aster instrument is a collaborative effort between NASA and the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry. It�s designed primarily to collect data based on the reflection and absorption of heat on the planet below. From its ability to generate stereoscopic images, Aster can create digital elevation maps. It is also the instrument on Terra with the highest spatial resolution; in other words, it�s capable of observing the smallest area in the greatest detail. Posted on: 31 Mar, 2003

• Hubble Space Telescope
• Chandra X-ray Observatory
• Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory
• ROSAT X-ray Observatory
• SOHO Solar Observatory
• WMAP
• 2MASS Sky Survey
• ASTER Earth Imaging Instrument
• MISR Earth Imaging Instrument
• NRAO Gallery
• NAOJ Subaru Telescope
• Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
• European Southern Observatory (ESO)
• Wide-Field Imager (WFI)
• SOFI Infrared Multi-mode Instrument
• Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT)
• New Technology Telescope (NTT)
• Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX)
• SOHO Daily Images - 1996
• Spitzer Space Telescope (SIRTF)
• Infrared Legacy Gallery

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