Project Description for Meteor-3/TOMS (Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer)

Abstract

This document provides Goddard Space Flight Center's (GSFC) Project Description for the Meteor-3/TOMS mission_ The Meteor-3/TOMS mission is a joint USA/USSR scientific program in which a US Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) instrument will fly on a USSR Meteor-3 spacecraft. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has initiated the Meteor-3/TOMS Project to provide a continuation of the decade-long global coverage obtained with the Nimbus-7 TOMS instrument. The scientific goal is to gather global total ozone data of an environmental importance to both countries as well as to all peoples of the earth.