ISRO releases images of Earth captured by its EOS-06 satellite

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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has recently released images of Earth captured by the EOS-06 satellite.

An overview of the news

• The images are a mosaic generated by ISRO's National Remote Sensing Center (NRSC).

• The images have been captured by the Ocean Color Monitor (OCM) payload on board EOS-06 by NRSC.

About EOS-06 satellite

• Earth Observation satellite (EOS-6) is the third-generation satellite in the Oceansat series.

• It provides continued services of Oceansat-2 with enhanced payload capability.

• It was launched by ISRO onboard the PSLV-C54 along with eight Nano-satellites on 26 November, 2022.

• It provides continued services of Oceansat-2 with enhanced payload capability and carries four payloads OCM-, Sea Surface Temperature Monitor, Ku-Band Scatterometer, and ARGOS.

Objectives of the Mission

• Ensuring data continuity of ocean color and wind vector data to maintain operational applications.

• To improve the applications, adjusting the number of bands in the optical region for some additional datasets such as sea surface temperature and fluorescence.

• Develop related algorithms and data products.

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

• ISRO was set up on 15 August 1969.

• Chairman of ISRO: S Somnath

• Headquarters of ISRO : Bengaluru, Karnataka

• Space Station from where ISRO launches rockets :

• Satish  Dhawan  Space  Centre  (SDSC)  SHAR,  Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh