{"id":6869,"date":"2023-03-31T05:24:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T23:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6869"},"modified":"2025-03-28T15:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T10:00:18","slug":"eos-06-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/eos-06-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"EOS-06 satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About<\/strong> <strong>the<\/strong> <strong>EOS-06 satellite:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Earth Observation satellite (EOS-6) is the third-generation satellite in the Oceansat series.<\/li>\n<li>This is to provide continuity services for Oceansat-2 spacecraft with enhanced payload specifications as well as application areas.<\/li>\n<li>Payloads of the satellite are\n<ul>\n<li>Ocean Color Monitor (OCM-3)<\/li>\n<li>Sea Surface Temperature Monitor (SSTM)<\/li>\n<li>Ku-Band Scatterometer (SCAT-3)<\/li>\n<li>ARGOS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What are the objectives of the Mission?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>To ensure the data continuity of Ocean colour and wind vector data to sustain the operational applications.<\/li>\n<li>To improve the applications, some additional datasets such as <strong>Sea Surface Temperature<\/strong> and more number of bands in the Optical region for fluorescence and in the Infrared region for atmospheric corrections are accommodated.<\/li>\n<li>To develop\/improve related algorithms and data products to serve in well-established application areas and to enhance the mission utility.<\/li>\n<li>The EOS-06 is envisaged to observe <strong>ocean color data<\/strong>, sea surface temperature and wind vector data to use in Oceanography, <strong>climatic and meteorological applications<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The satellite also supports value added products such as potential <strong>fishing zone<\/strong> using chlorophyll, SST and wind speed and land based geophysical parameters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is an oceansat satellite?<\/h3>\n<p>Oceansat is a series of earth observation satellites built, launched, and operated by Indian Space Research Organisation, and dedicated to oceanography and atmospheric studies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/isro-releases-images-of-earth-captured-by-its-eos-06-satellite\/article66678311.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>ISRO releases images of Earth captured by its EOS-06 satellite<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth Observation satellite (EOS-6) is the third-generation satellite in the Oceansat series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}