Explorer-7 Thermal Radiation Experiment Temperature Values from All Sensors V001 (EXP7L1TRTALL) at GES DISC

Explorer-7 Thermal Radiation Experiment Temperature Values from All Sensors product contains temperature readings from all five bolometers in order to measure solar, reflected and terrestrial radiation. There are two files for the entire mission (Oct. 19, 1959 to April 16, 1960 and April 16, 1960 to June 4, 1960. Note there is no geolocation information included with these data. The data were originally written on IBM 7094 machines on magnetic tapes. The data have been restored and are archived in their original IBM 36-bit word binary format.The Explorer-7 satellite was successfully launched on October 13, 1959. The radius of the circle of coverage was about 23 deg (~2500 km) at perigee and 31.5 deg (~3500 km) at apogee. Half the radiation is received from an area below the satellite with a radius of 5.3 deg (545 km) at perigee and 9 deg (~1015 km) at apogee. The Thermal Radiation Experiment successfully returned the first set of Earth looking data from space. The instrument was operational from launch until Feb. 28, 1961.The Principal Investigator for these data was Verner E. Suomi from the University of Wisconsin. This product was previously available from the NSSDC with the identifier ESAD-00249 (old ID 59-009A-01B).

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