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RapidScat

Rapid Scatterometer
RapidScat provided all-weather ocean surface wind vector measurements over the ice-free global oceans.
9 datasets
RBV image from Landsat 3 of the Chitina River Valley Glaciers in Alaska

RBV

Return Beam Vidicon
The Return Beam Vidicon (RBV) aboard Landsat 1, Landsat 2, and Landsat 3 used a television camera tube that formed an image by focusing light onto a photoconductive faceplate.
International Space Station image of Earth's atmosphere

SAGE II

Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment II
NASA's Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment II (SAGE II) determines the spatial distributions of stratospheric aerosols, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, water vapor, and cloud occurrence by mapping vertical profiles and calculating monthly averages of each.
11 datasets
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