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INSAT-3A cameras working well

New Delhi April 19. The ISRO today said the two cameras on board the INSAT-3A, which was launched on April 10, are working fine and sending good pictures.

The meteorological instruments on board the INSAT-3A have been tested in the last two days and the pictures received indicated good performance of both the cameras, an ISRO release said here. The cameras include a three-channel Very High Resolution Radiometer (VHRR), with two km spatial resolution in visible spectral band and a Charge Coupled Device (CCD) camera which operates in the Visible Near Infrared and Shortwave Infrared bands providing a spatial resolution of one km.

The CCD camera was tested on April 17 and the VHRR on April 18. — PTI

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