The Terra MODIS observations began in February 2000 and are expected to continue through at least 2004. Another MODIS is planned for launch aboard NASA’s upcoming Aqua mission.

NASA is planning to decommission premier satellite missions that gather information on planet-warming pollution and other ...

Aqua and Terra each carry a MODIS instrument designed to gather planetary data across 36 spectral bands. Data will be processed into 44 distinct data products available to the world for use in ...

The MODIS instrument on NASA's Terra satellite captured a visible image of Igor (Left) at 11:30 am on Sept. 18, while MODIS in the Aqua satellite captured Igor's center just southwest of Bermuda ...

On Oct. 23 at 1150 UTC the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite showed Typhoon Champi's clouds and showers (red, yellow) stretching from southwest to northeast.

These forest measures were produced by analyzing data from Terra’s MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) instrument using Maryland’s continuous fields method for tree cover ...

NASA's MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Terra and Aqua satellites has again been used to check our environment. This time, NASA satellites have been tracking the ...

NASA's Terra satellite sees landfall for Tropical Cyclone Megh Tropical Cyclone Megh became the second tropical cyclone to make landfall in Yemen in one week. As Megh began land falling just north ...

This visible image of Tropical Cyclone Dumile over La Reunion Island and Mauritius was captured by the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite on Jan. 3, 2013, at 0650 UTC.

instruments on sister satellites in Earth orbit. Like its twin flying aboard NASA’s Terra satellite — launched in 1999 — Aqua MODIS sees almost the entire surface of our planet every day in ...