NIMBUS TO NOW: THE HISTORY OF NASA’S EARTH-OBSERVING MISSIONS

High-Level Project Summary

The ChallengeNASA has a long and successful history of developing, launching, and operating Earth-observingmissions that have contributed significantly to our understanding of the planet. My challenge is tocreate an engaging multimedia depiction of all NASA’s Earth-observing missions that alsodemonstrates how the mission set evolved over time to include new technologies and meetscience-driven needs.ObjectivesThe focus of this challenge is to showcase NASA’s long history of observing Earth from space to abroad audience in an engaging manner. My challenge is to create a multimedia depiction of allNASA’s Earth-observing missions that also demonstrates how the mission set evolved

Detailed Project Description

The Earth Observing System (EOS) is a program of NASA comprising a series

of artificial satellite missions and scientific instruments in Earth orbit designed for

long-term global observations of the land surface, biosphere, atmosphere, and oceans.

Since the early 1970s, NASA has been developing its Earth Observing System, launching a

series of LANDSAT satellites in the decade. Some of the first included Passive-Microwave

imaging in 1972 through the Nimbus 5 Satellite.[1] Following the launch of various satellite

missions, the conception of the program began in the late 80s and expanded rapidly

through the 90s.[2] Since the inception of the program, it has continued to develop to what

we can collect in data today, including; land, sea, radiation and atmosphere.[1] Collected in a

system known as EOSDIS, NASA uses this data in order to study the progression and

changes in the biosphere of Earth. The main focus of this data collection surrounds

climatic science.

Space Agency Data

EO Dashboard

and also used some information from the wikipedia website like about the founder of NASA and about the history of NASA.


Hackathon Journey

we learnt about many things by visiting the other projects (challenge) members in our break times.

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