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-- Terra – The EOS Flagship ↓ Skip to Main Content NASA | Earth Observatory | Terra in Visible Earth The EOS Flagship About Mission Terra Instruments ASTER CERES MISR MODIS MOPITT Science Applications Atmosphere Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Climate Variability and Change Earth’s Surface & Interior Water & Energy Cycle Weather Data ASTER Data CERES Data MISR Data MODIS Data MOPITT Data Multimedia TERRA Images Videos Podcasts News Resources For Data Users For Educators For Everyone All Resources Leadership Dr. Kurtis Thome Dr. David J. Diner Dr. James R. Drummond Dr. John C. Gille Dr. Lin Chambers Dr. Michael D. King Mr. Michael J. Abrams Dr. Norman G. Loeb Dr. Si-Chee Tsay Mr. Robert Wolfe Mr. Wynn J. Watson Mrs. Tassia Owen ☰ Main Menu About Mission Terra Instruments ASTER CERES MISR MODIS MOPITT Science Applications Atmosphere Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Climate Variability and Change Earth’s Surface & Interior Water & Energy Cycle Weather Data ASTER Data CERES Data MISR Data MODIS Data MOPITT Data Multimedia TERRA Images Videos Podcasts News Resources For Data Users For Educators For Everyone All Resources Leadership Dr. Kurtis Thome Dr. David J. Diner Dr. James R. Drummond Dr. John C. Gille Dr. Lin Chambers Dr. Michael D. King Mr. Michael J. Abrams Dr. Norman G. Loeb Dr. Si-Chee Tsay Mr. Robert Wolfe Mr. Wynn J. Watson Mrs. Tassia Owen Terra Instruments: ASTER CERES MISR MODIS MOPITT Winter Flooding on the Mississippi Baikal’s Giant Ice Rings Etosha Pan Refills Growth of a Summer Storm Major Dust Storm Sweeps Across Australia Iceland’s Volcanic Glacier Southern California Snow Seeing the Parts for the Whole Drought Threatens Millions in Southern Africa Bodélé Dust Desert Crops Thrive as the Aquifer Shrinks Erebus Casts a Mighty Shadow A Cirrus Arc A Burial Site Fit for an Emperor Severe Winter Storm Hits the West Coast Making Sense of Amazon Deforestation Patterns Long-Term Drought Parches Chile Cloud Streets over the Atlantic Bushfires Still Raging in New South Wales Detecting Invisible Plant Stress Terra: the EOS Flagship Terra explores the connections between Earth's atmosphere, land, snow and ice, ocean, and energy balance to understand Earth's climate and climate change and to map the impact of human activity and natural disasters on communities and ecosystems. Terra: Providing Critical Data to Help Society Terra's five sensors help us understand out changing planet and provide critical data used in applications from food security, volcanic monitoring, wildfire safety, public health, and climate modeling. Terra's twenty years of data continue to contribute to how we understand Earth and how we respond when disasters strike. Twenty Years of Terra in Our Lives Terra's suite of instruments allows us to understand our world well beyond what we knew twenty years ago, when Terra launched. In those twenty years, new applications and contributions to science have been made possible. There is no question that technology has changed. But, at the same time that our lives on Earth were being shaped by our access to technology, 705 kilometers above us, a satellite was changing how we understood our planet. For 20 years, Terra, the flagship Earth observing satellite, has chronicled changes on Earth. Designed and built in the 1980s and 90s, NASA and Lockheed Martin engineers set out to build a satellite that could take simultaneous measurements of Earth’s atmosphere, land, and water. Its mission – to understand how Earth is changing and to identify the consequences for life on Earth. Season after season, Terra data continues to help us understand how the evolving systems of our planet affect our lives – and how we can use that data to benefit society. Read more and find resources from our anniversary events, Terra 20 Events Science Visualizations ASTER CERES MISR MODIS MOPITT NASA Official: Kurtis Thome Webmaster: Susannah Pearce and Nate Perrin Curator: Tassia Owen Last Updated: Feb 06, 2020 Privacy Policy & Important Notices | Contact Us...