Objectives and Applications
Full Name
NIMBUS-7
Mission Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
24 Oct 1978
Mission Links
EOL Date
01 Oct 1994
Orbit Type
Sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
99.28 minutes
Orbit Sense
N/A
Orbit Inclination
104.09 deg
Orbit Altitude
943 km
Orbit Longitude
NORAD Catalog #
International Designator
CZCS - Coastal Zone Color Scanner |
| LIMS - Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere |
| SAGE II - Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment-II |
| SAMS - Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder instrument |
| SBUV/1 - Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet 2 instrument |
| SMMR - Scanning Multi-channel Microwave Radiometer |
| TOMS - Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer |
| Category | Parameter | Instrument(s) |
| Atmosphere | Aerosols | SAGE II |
| Atmospheric Humidity Fields | SAGE II |
| Atmospheric Winds | SAGE II |
| Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature | SAGE II |
| Ozone | SAGE II, TOMS |
| Trace gases (excluding ozone) | SAGE II, TOMS |
| Atmospheric Temperature Fields | SAGE II |
| Ocean | Ocean colour/biology | CZCS |
| Snow & Ice | Sea ice cover, edge and thickness | SMMR |