{"id":15959,"date":"2014-06-27T17:34:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T17:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=15959"},"modified":"2014-06-29T18:34:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T18:34:26","slug":"40-years-of-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/15959","title":{"rendered":"40 years of Satellite Imagery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/06\/first_sms_1_1974_178_2130ir.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/06\/first_sms_1_1974_178_2130ir.gif\" alt=\"Synchronous Meteorological Satellite (SMS-1) 11 \u00b5m infrared channel image, 2130 UTC 27 June 1974 (click to enlarge)\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong> Synchronous Meteorological Satellite (SMS-1) 11 \u00b5m infrared channel image, 2130 UTC 27 June 1974 <\/strong>(click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The oldest satellite image in the <a title=\"Space Science and Engineering Center\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/\">SSEC<\/a> data archive is shown above, taken 40 years ago on 27 June 1974, from SMS-1 (the corresponding visible image can be seen <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/06\/first_sms_1_1974_178_2130vis.gif\">here<\/a>). The infrared channel sensed radiation in a broad spectrum between 10.5 and 12.6 \u00b5m (<a href=\"http:\/\/gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov\/KeywordSearch\/Supplementals.do?Portal=GCMD&amp;KeywordPath=Instruments&amp;MetadataType=3&amp;EntryId=VISSR\">source<\/a>). The SMS-1 satellite (launched on 17 May 1974) was positioned over the Equator over eastern South America, at about 45 degrees West Longitude.<\/p>\n<p>More information on the SSEC Datacenter archive is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/datacenter\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest satellite image in the SSEC data archive is shown above, taken 40 years ago on 27 June 1974, from SMS-1 (the corresponding visible image can be seen here). The infrared channel sensed radiation in a broad spectrum between 10.5 and 12.6 \u00b5m (source). The SMS-1 satellite (launched on 17 May 1974) was positioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":15975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical","category-other-satellites"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15959"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15974,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15959\/revisions\/15974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}