Aqua Earth Observing Unmanned Missions

Aqua carries six state-of-the-art instruments in a near-polar low-Earth orbit. The six instruments are the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU-A), the Humidity Sounder for Brazil (HSB), the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSR-E), the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), and Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES). Each has unique characteristics and capabilities, and all six serve together to form a powerful package for Earth observations.

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• Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) - JPL offers mission background, news, science impact, data and images.
• Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) - Find instrument information, data, and publications from the aqua Cooperative Institute unmanned for Research in the Atmosphere at aqua Colorado State University.
• Wikipedia - Aqua (satellite) - Includes an overview of the program and summary aqua of specifications.
• AMSR-E - Find an instrument description, mission purpose, data products, and team unmanned members.
• NASA - Aqua - Includes mission news, fact sheets, press kits, and unmanned featured multimedia.
• AIRS - DAAC - Offers data and images from the AIRS/AMSU/HSB suite unmanned of instruments aqua which constitute an atmospheric sounding system unmanned of infrared, microwave and aqua visible sensors.
• Earth Observatory Library: Aqua - Offers an overview of the program, discussion of aqua science results, and instrument details.

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