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Mission to Planet Earth
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ATLAS-1Atmospheric and solar observatory payloadMission concludedATLAS-1 turned Atlantis into a reusable observatory for coordinated measurements of the Sun and Earth's atmosphere.
ATLAS-2Atmospheric and solar observatory payloadMission concludedATLAS-2 reused a tightly calibrated seven-instrument core to compare solar output with the chemistry of Earth's middle atmosphere.
ATLAS-3Atmospheric and solar observatory payloadMission concludedATLAS-3 completed the Shuttle series' three-flight calibrated comparison of solar energy and middle-atmosphere chemistry.
Lidar In-Space Technology ExperimentSpaceborne atmospheric lidarMission concludedLITE was NASA Langley's first orbital atmospheric lidar demonstration and a complete three-color active remote-sensing instrument.
Upper Atmosphere Research SatelliteEarth atmospheric observatoryMission concludedTen-instrument NASA observatory deployed by Discovery to measure upper-atmosphere chemistry, winds, radiation, and energy inputs, with particular attention to stratospheric ozone.
Measurement of Air Pollution from SatellitesAtmospheric remote-sensing instrumentMission concludedMAPS was a nadir-viewing gas-filter correlation radiometer built to survey free-tropospheric carbon monoxide from the Shuttle.
Space Radar Laboratory-1Earth-observation radar laboratoryMission concludedSpace Radar Laboratory-1 combined the three-frequency SIR-C/X-SAR imaging system with the MAPS carbon-monoxide radiometer for an eleven-day survey of Earth's land, oceans, ice, vegetation, geology, and lower atmosphere.
Space Radar Laboratory-2Earth-observation radar laboratoryMission concludedSpace Radar Laboratory-2 reflown SIR-C/X-SAR and MAPS to measure seasonal change and test repeat-pass radar interferometry.