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PIA02452: ASTER's First Views of Red Sea, Ethiopia - Thermal-Infrared (TIR) Image (monochrome)
This scene scene covers the Red Sea coastline to an inland area of Ethiopia. This image is from NASA's Terra spacecraft.
 Target Name:  Earth
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Terra 
 Spacecraft:  Terra
 Instrument:  ASTER 
 Product Size:  2160 x 2251 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  ERSDAC - Japan 
 Addition Date:  2000-03-11 
 Primary Data Set:  ASTER 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA02452.tif (2.76 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA02452.jpg (185.8 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

ASTER succeeded in acquiring this image at night, which is something Visible/Near Infrared VNIR) and Shortwave Infrared (SWIR) sensors cannot do. The scene covers the Red Sea coastline to an inland area of Ethiopia. White pixels represent areas with higher temperature material on the surface, while dark pixels indicate lower temperatures. This image shows ASTER's ability as a highly sensitive, temperature-discerning instrument and the first spaceborne TIR multi-band sensor in history.

The size of image: 60 km x 60 km approx., ground resolution 90 m x 90 m approximately.

The ASTER instrument was built in Japan for the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. A joint United States/Japan Science Team is responsible for instrument design, calibration, and data validation. ASTER is flying on the Terra satellite, which is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.

Image Credit:
NASA/Goddard/ERSDAC & JPL

Image Addition Date:
2000-03-11