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New TerraSAR-X image gallery
9 January 2008
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has recently published a new image gallery featuring high-resolution images and videos of TerraSAR-X.
On June 15 2007, the German Earth observation satellite TerraSAR-X was shot into space from the Russian cosmodrome Baikonur on a Russian-Ukrainian Dnepr-1 rocket. Within a record four days after the launch, its first images were received and processed by the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
TerraSAR-X will fly around Earth for five years at an altitude of about 514 kilometres, scanning the surface of our planet with radar without regard to weather, cloud and daylight conditions. The satellite has several image settings at its disposal which, resembling the action of a zoom lens, either afford a view of a relatively large area (the so-called ScanSAR mode) or show many details in smaller segments called SpotLight images. The StripMap mode represents a compromise between wider coverage and higher definition.
From now on, TerraSAR-X will provide new opportunities to observe and monitor changes in the state of the land and water surfaces of our Earth and its polar regions.
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Source: DLR
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