{"id":227,"date":"2004-07-15T13:39:50","date_gmt":"2004-07-15T13:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/?p=227"},"modified":"2025-11-21T13:29:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:29:26","slug":"aura-satellite-launch-deploy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/15\/aura-satellite-launch-deploy\/","title":{"rendered":"Aura satellite launch &#038; deploy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aura.gsfc.nasa.gov\">Aura<\/a> is a earth observing satellite and it is part of NASA Earth Observing System (EOS). Aura&#8217;s four instruments study the atmosphere&#8217;s chemistry and dynamics. Aura&#8217;s measurements will enable us to investigate questions about ozone trends, air quality changes and their linkage to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Aura&#8217;s measurements will provide accurate data for predictive models and provide useful information for local and national agency decision support systems.<\/p>\n<p>The Aura spacecraft was successfully launched on July 15, 2004 aboard a Delta II 7920-10L, a two stage expendable rocket, from the Vandenberg Western Test Range.<\/p>\n<p>I have created the Aura launch and deploy animation for the Aura science team. The animations were used for public outreach purposes prior to launch.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Aura satellite launch &amp; deploy\" width=\"1003\" height=\"564\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T85HfTNItU4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aura is a earth observing satellite and it is part of NASA Earth Observing System (EOS). Aura&#8217;s four instruments study the atmosphere&#8217;s chemistry and dynamics. Aura&#8217;s measurements will enable us to investigate questions about ozone trends, air quality changes and their linkage to climate change. Aura&#8217;s measurements will provide accurate data for predictive models and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/15\/aura-satellite-launch-deploy\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,13,11,9,10,8],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nasa","tag-3d","tag-animation","tag-aura","tag-launch","tag-nasa-2","tag-satellite","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}