What a Wondrful Worldview

摘要

Imagine that you are an astronaut, circling the earth in a polar orbit that passes over almost the entire planet every 24 hours. Imagine too that one of your eyes is named MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) and it has cones not merely of three different colors or wavelengths, but rather of 36 that extended from visible light into the infrared, and your second eye, named AIRS (Atmospheric Infrared Sounder), detects 2,387 infrared wavelengths, and your third eye, named AMSU (Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit), detects 15 microwave wavelengths. What a wonderful world view you would then have!