Looking at the Moon to Better See Earth

The Terra satellite performed a rare backflip maneuver in order to calibrate its imagers by the light of the Moon.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Looking at the Moon to Better See Earth.

NASA images by Michael Abrams (NASA/JPL), Abbey Nastan (NASA/JPL), and Jesse Allen, using data from the ASTER, MISR, and MODIS instruments on the Terra satellite. Story by Tassia Owen, Abbey Nastan, and Michael Carlowicz.

Published August 19, 2017
Data acquired August 6, 2017

Sources:: Terra > ASTER; Terra > MISR; Terra > MODIS