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| | | | | | | SMOS – snart klar for jobb
23 Februar 2010
| The SMOS Microwave Imaging Radiometer using Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS) consists of a central structure and three deployable arms that carry 69 antenna receivers. From an altitude of 758 km, the SMOS will view an area almost 3000 km in diameter. Due to the interferometry measurement principle and the Y-shaped antenna, the field of view is limited to a hexagon-like shape about 1000 km across. The orbit will result in global coverage every three days.
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| | | | En stjerne med tre kanter
| The first MIRAS (Microwave Imaging Radiometer using Aperture Synthesis) signal was received on 17 November 2009 (19:03 UTC) at ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), in Villafranca, Spain. MIRAS, the sole instrument on ESA's water mission, was switched on on 17 November at 12:48 UTC. SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity), an ESA Earth Explorer satellite, and ESA’s Project for Onboard Autonomy (Proba-2) were launched into orbit together from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia on Monday 2 November 2009.
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| SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity), an ESA Earth Explorer satellite, was launched into orbit from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia on Monday 2 November 2009.
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| This image is the first data sent to Earth by the MIRAS instrument on ESA's SMOS satellite, launched on 2 November 2009. It was acquired as part of the initial functional verification test since the instrument was switched on on 17 November. The image depicts non-calibrated brightness temperature values colour coded from blue (low) to red (high). Although the image content cannot be interpreted at this time, it proves that the instrument is in good shape and the data reception and processing chain are working.
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