New images sent by Isro's Oceansat-3 show how beautiful India looks from space.
In order to support operational applications, the satellite has been providing continuous ocean color and wind vector data.
Ankush Pandey
Using the onboard Ocean Colour Monitor, the Earth Observation Satellite (EOS-06, also known as Oceansat-3) has sent back new images of the planet. Isro's National Remote Sensing Center (NRSC) in Hyderabad created the mosaic images from the spacecraft's returned data.
The Earth Observation Satellite-06 is the Oceansat series' third-generation satellite and is intended to provide Oceansat-2 spacecraft with enhanced payload specifications and application areas with continuity services.
Ocean Color Monitor (OCM-3), Sea Surface Temperature Monitor (SSTM), Ku-Band Scatterometer (SCAT-3), and ARGOS were launched with Oceansat-3. The Ocean Color Monitor detects the Earth at 13 distinct wavelengths to provide data on the global ocean biota and land vegetation cover.
The satellite has been continuously providing data on ocean color and wind vectors to support and enhance operational applications, as well as information on sea surface temperature and additional optical band bands.
In 2022, the Satish Dhawan Space Centr
e in Sriharikota served as the launch pad for the PSLV-C54 mission that carried the EOS-06 mission. In December 2022, Oceansat-3 captured Cyclone Mandous, and the OCM aboard EOS-06 discovered an alga (coccolithophore) bloom in the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Argentina.
The Oceansat series of satellites are utilized for the earth's perception and observing water bodies. In 1999, the initial Oceansat was launched into a Polar Sun Synchronous orbit that was nearly 720 kilometers above the surface of the Earth. Oceansat-2 had launched a locally available PSLV-C14 mission in 2009.
