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Terra’s MODIS Roll #114 was completed successfully. The low fidelity times for the maneuver 42/20:45:00-22:25:16

Saturday, February 13, 2012
Lunar Roll Maneuver (-14.7483 degrees)
2012/042 21:54:16 ATC MOD_OA04_FR_NIGHT_RATE.1 (03:23 early)
2012/042 22:02:22-22:09:08 ATC MOD_OA08_ROLL_MAN.3
2012/042 22:50:18 ATC MOD_OA03_FR_DAY_RATE.2 (03:23 late)

The reflective solar bands (RSB) of Terra MODIS have experienced relatively large degradation in recent years. The current calibration algorithm used in deriving the Collection 5 LUTS does not completely capture and correct for this degradation, which is both wavelength and angle-of-incidence dependent. Science data products that utilize the shorter wavelength bands, especially Bands 8 (412 nm), 9 (443 nm) 3 (469 nm), 1 (646 nm), and 2 (856 nm) can expect to see an observable impact on data quality.

Saturday, November 05, 2011
Lunar Roll Maneuver (-2.4150 degree roll)
2011/309 17:34:04 MCL MOD_OA03_FR_DAY_RATE
2011/309 18:20:28 MCL MOD_OA03_FR_NIGHT_RATE (03:23 early)
2011/309 19:00:28-19:07:14 MOD_OA08_ROLL_MAN
2011/309 19:16:19 MCL MOD_OA03_FR_DAY_RATE (03:23 late)
2011/309 20:02:23 MCL MOD_OA03_FR_NIGHT_RATE

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Spacecraft: AM-1 Terra
Date: 2011/290 (10/17/2011)
Data Collect Begin Time: 02:23:02 GMT
Data Collect End Time: 02:29:32 GMT
Total Collect Duration: 6 minutes 30 seconds
Sun-Moon-MODIS Phase Angle: 55.31 degrees
Requested Roll Angle: -11.3417 degrees
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Spacecraft: PM-1 Aqua
Date: 2011/280 (10/07/2011)
Data Collect Begin Time: 11:19:10 GMT
Data Collect End Time: 11:25:40 GMT
Total Collect Duration: 6 minutes 30 seconds
Sun-Moon-MODIS Phase Angle: 51.35 degrees
Requested Roll Angle: -13.3063 degrees
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