Image from TERRA
Tue, 18 Apr 2023 16:24 EDT

The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, located in Katmai National Park, forms a unique and ashen landscape. Encircled by volcanoes – both active and inactive – it has served as a perfect collection area for huge amounts of volcanic ash.

Image from TERRA
Tue, 20 Sep 2022 10:30 EDT

Water departments in the West are using maps and models originally created by a NASA team to help track water.

Image from TERRA
Thu, 15 Sep 2022 10:00 EDT

NASA and Google broadened an existing partnership to help local governments improve their monitoring and prediction of air quality for better decision making.

Terra, Aqua, and Aura Drifting Orbits Workshop (2022)

NASA previously released a Request for Information (RFI) on a Terra, Aqua, and Aura Drifting Orbits Workshop, for which the response date was October 11, 2022.

The Terra, Aqua, and Aura Drifting Orbits Workshop was held virtually on November 1-2, 2022. The Workshop Agenda is available on the RFI NSPIRES page (linked above).

The Executive Summary of the Terra, Aqua, and Aura Drifting Orbits Workshop is downloadable as a PDF from this link. The January-February 2023 edition of The Earth Observer also includes a workshop summary and is also downloadable as a PDF from this link.


Summary of NASA’s Terra, Aqua, and Aura Drifting Orbits RFI Announcement


Additional Resources:

Official Terra Timeline (September 2022):

Terra Orbital Changes

Terra Systems Summary and Analysis

See the document below for additional details on the health and status of the Terra satellite and its instruments.