Envisat
- SCIAMACHY and the ENVISAT-1 Atmospheric Chemistry Payload
Instrument | Method | Geometry | Time | Height | Products | Synergism |
GOMOS | Stellar Occultation UV-Vis | Limb | Night & Day | Upper Troposphere - Mesosphere | O3, OClO, BrO, NO3 | together with SCIAMACHY comparison of day - night chemistry |
MIPAS | FTIR Emission | Limb | Night & Day | Upper Troposphere - Mesosphere ? | NOy-family, CFC's, COS, C2H6, ClONO2, HNO3, HNO4, N2O5 | together with SCIAMACHY all important stratospheric gases will be measured |
MERIS | Vis - NIR Imager | Nadir | Day | Ground | Clouds, Albedo, Aersol | high spatial resolution information |
ENVISAT-1 Orbit | |
Mean local time at descending node | 10:00 |
Inclination [deg] | 98.55 |
Orbit radius [km] | 7159.5 |
Orbit velocity [km/s] | 7.45 |
Mean altitude [km] | 799.8 |
Orbits per day [1/days] | 14 11/35 |
Repeat cycle [days] | 35 |
Orbit period [min] | 100.59 |
- Additional information can be found at the ENVISAT-1 website (ESTEC).