ISRO Shares Breathtaking Mosaic Of Earth From Space, Featuring India In Stunning Detail
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has shared new images of what India looks like from space. The images were clicked by the Earth Observation Satellite (EOS-06), also known a Oceansat-3, using the Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM).
The images are actually mosaics generated by National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) based on data sent to Earth by the spacecraft. In each mosaic, 2,939 images were combined after processing 300 GB of data.
What do the images represent?
What we see in the images is how Earth looked between February 1-15 this year and we can see all the continents in the pictures. In some images, India can be seen clearly from space.
In a Tweet, ISRO shared the stunning images and wrote the following - "Global False Colour Composite mosaic generated by NRSC/ISRO using images from Ocean Colour Monitor on EOS-06 Mosaic with 1 km spatial resolution combines 2939 images after processing 300 GB of data to show Earth as seen during Feb 1-15, 2023."
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The difference in terms of colours in the images is caused by variations in wavelengths and the pictures clicked by the Ocean Colour Monitor provide information about global vegetation cover on land, as well as marine biota details. "OCM senses the Earth in 13 distinct wavelengths to provide information about global vegetation cover on Land and Ocean Biota for global oceans," ISRO explained.
Launched in November, 2022, OceanSat-3 is a nanosatellite that was launched by ISRO as part of the PSLV-C54 mission - comprising a series of satellite launches aimed to study the oceans and atmospheric conditions.
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The three major instruments on the OceanSat-3 are Ocean Color Monitor (OCM-3), Sea Surface Temperature Monitor (SSTM), Ku-Band Scatterometer (SCAT-3), and ARGOS - all tools that aid the observation of Earth in different wavelengths. In addition, the satellite can also identify potential fishing zones, the space organisation said.
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