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Five channels of infrared and visible radiance data were collected by the TIROS-3 satellite's Medium-Resolution Scanning Radiometer for approximately two and a half months after its launch on July 12, 1961. Each file contains measurements from one orbit, expressed as equivalent blackbody temperature or effective radiant emittance, with a 55 km footprint at nadir. This dataset represents an early, recovered record of Earth's radiation from the Final Meteorological Radiation Tapes (FMRT).
Data is in a proprietary IBM 36-bit binary format (.TAP). License is listed as 'other-license-specified' without details.