SATELLITE INSTRUMENT
ISS Astronaut Photography
Since 2000, astronauts on the ISS have regularly taken photos of the Earth surface, during both day and nighttime, with different digital cameras. More than 7 million photos were taken, of which about 138 thousand with low cloud cover and all relavant metadata registered. Of such subset, about 21 thousand images were acquired during nighttime.
STATUS
Ongoing
DATA AVAILABILITY
Yes, freely available
TIME RANGE
Since 2000
FREQUENCY OF MEASUREMENT
Sporadic
DATA PUBLISHING FREQUENCY
n/a
DATA PUBLISHING DELAY
n/a
MORE INFORMATION
CALIBRATED DATA
No
MEASUREMENT UNIT
n/a
WAVELENGTH RANGE
RGB
OBSERVED AREA
from -52° to +52° latitude
FIELD-OF-VIEW
Various
POINTING DIRECTION
Various
SPATIAL RESOLUTION
Various
ORBIT TYPE
Low Earth Orbit,
400 km of altitude
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