VENUS Satellite Orbit

This map shows the current location of the VENUS (Vegetation and Environment monitoring on a New Micro-Satellite) satellite. VENUS is a near polar sun-synchronous orbit microsatellite being jointly built by the Israeli Space Agency and CNES. The satellite has a scientific and a technological mission. The satellite has a 2-day revisit orbit which allows constant viewing angles at constant sun lighting angles. The unique combination is hoped to allow the development of new image processing methods.