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Terra ('''EOS AM-1''') is a multi-national NASA scientific research Satellite in Orbit around the Earth . It is the flagship of the Earth Observing System (EOS). The name " Terra " comes from the Latin word for land. The satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on December 18 , 1999 aboard an Atlas IIAS vehicle and began collecting data on February 24 , 2000 . Terra carries a payload of five remote sensors designed to monitor the state of Earth's Environment and ongoing changes in its Climate system:
The data collected by Terra began collecting what will ultimately become a new, 15-year global data set. EXTERNAL LINK |
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