This tutorial explains how satellite images are taken, transmitted to Earth, and converted into viewable form. Descriptions of each phase of the process are included: capture and transmittal of the image by a satellite or spacecraft, receiving the signal at one of the Deep Space Network's antennas, and processing the data into an image at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Multimission Image Processing Laboratory.

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