Terra - Orbit

View from above orbital plane
View from above orbital plane
View from above satellite
View from above satellite

Ground track
Ground track

The orbit data is extracted from the following two-line orbital elements,

1 25994U 99068A   13181.44529132  .00000246  00000-0  54666-4 0  2238
2 25994 098.2072 256.1939 0000869 070.7733 289.4162 14.57118634719845
Epoch (UTC): 30 June 2013 10:41:13
Eccentricity: 0.0000869
inclination: 98.2072°
perigee height: 702 km
apogee height: 703 km
right ascension of ascending node: 256.1939°
argument of perigee: 70.7733°
revolutions per day: 14.57118634
mean anomaly at epoch: 289.4162°
orbit number at epoch: 71984

The dashed part of the orbit path shows where the satellite is in the earth's shadow,  

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