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    term: NIMBUS-7
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    term: NIMBUS-7
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description: 'Nimbus is a NASA meteorological research-and-development satellite program (parallel to the operational TIROS program) which started in 1963 with the prime objective to test new instrument concepts (introduction of sensor technology), a secondary objective was to provide atmospheric data for improved weather forecasts. Eventually, the series grew more into a major Earth sciences program (study of oceans, land surfaces and atmosphere) with the availability of better sensing instrumentation. The ERTS (Earth Resources Technology Satellite, later renamed to Landsat-1) program, developed in the early 1970s, is a direct descendent of the Nimbus program.'
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end_date: 1994-10-01T00:00:00
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  - description: Limb-scanning IR spectrometer
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  - description: Limb-scanning SW spectrometer
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  - description: High-resolution nadir-scanning SW spectrometer
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  - description: Limb-scanning IR spectrometer
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references: []
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