MetOp weather satellite in Earth orbit,artwork. The MetOp satellites are a network of weather satellites being developed by EUMETSAT (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites) to replace the TIROS network. The first satellite,MetOp-A,was launched on 19 October 2006. The next ones are planned for 2012 and 2017. The instruments include IASI (Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer),GOME-2 (Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2),AVHRR/3 (new version of the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer),and MHS (Microwave Humidity Sounder) | |
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