<p>The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has joined the search hunt for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight, which disappeared shortly after take-off from Kuala Lumpur airport.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The plane dropped off the air traffic controllers' (ATC) radar less than an hour later and the whereabouts of 227 passengers and 12 crew members still remain unknown.<br /><br />"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 (ISS), to acquire new images of possible crash sites," NASA spokesman Allard Beutel was quoted as saying on Space.com.<br /><br />The ISERV camera system was launched in July 2012 to observe specific areas of the globe for disaster analysis and environmental studies, NASA said.<br /><br />The resolution of images from these instruments could be used to identify objects of about 98 feet (30 metres) or larger.<br /><br />NASA would send relevant data to the US Geological Survey's earth resources observations and science hazard data distribution system.<br /><br />This system facilitates the sharing of information whenever the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters is activated.<br /><br />The charter - which aims to mitigate the effects of natural and man-made disasters by streamlining the delivery of space-acquired data - was activated by China March 11.</p>
<p>The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has joined the search hunt for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight, which disappeared shortly after take-off from Kuala Lumpur airport.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The plane dropped off the air traffic controllers' (ATC) radar less than an hour later and the whereabouts of 227 passengers and 12 crew members still remain unknown.<br /><br />"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 (ISS), to acquire new images of possible crash sites," NASA spokesman Allard Beutel was quoted as saying on Space.com.<br /><br />The ISERV camera system was launched in July 2012 to observe specific areas of the globe for disaster analysis and environmental studies, NASA said.<br /><br />The resolution of images from these instruments could be used to identify objects of about 98 feet (30 metres) or larger.<br /><br />NASA would send relevant data to the US Geological Survey's earth resources observations and science hazard data distribution system.<br /><br />This system facilitates the sharing of information whenever the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters is activated.<br /><br />The charter - which aims to mitigate the effects of natural and man-made disasters by streamlining the delivery of space-acquired data - was activated by China March 11.</p>