NASA has joined international search operations to trace the missing Malaysian aircraft by analysing satellite data and images gathered since the plane with 239 people aboard vanished from radar screens a week ago. The world's premier space agency began examining ways it can contribute to the search for missing Flight MH370.
"Activities under way include mining data archives of satellite data acquired earlier and using space-based assets, such as the Earth-Observing-1(EO-1) satellite and the ISERV camera on the International Space Station, to acquire new images of possible crash sites," said Allard Beutel, spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
"The resolution of images from these instruments could be used to identify objects of about 30 metres or larger," he told Space.Com.