Will revealing the damage motivate action with real impact?
reveals that the German Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program satellite has delivered its first high-resolution, multicolor images of the Earth.aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9EnMap has now spent almost a month in space and it has imaged a roughly 30-km wide and 180-km long strip over Istanbul, Turkey showing, which marks the continental boundary between the European and Asian sides of the country.
The EnMap satellite uses a highly complex hyperspectral instrument, which DLR is in the process of calibrating with these first images. Once the calibration process is complete, the satellite will become fully operational, allowing it to collect data highlighting the effects of climate change from space. The EnMap satellite reached its target destination in Earth's orbit on April 9, eight days after its launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The EnMap satellite team's motto is"Our Earth in more than just color" because the image data is collected in various small wavelength ranges invisible to the naked eye. It can use more than 250 colors to produce exact data on water, vegetation, and soil over large areas from space. In a recent
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