Launching in spring 2024, the two small satellites of the agency’s PREFIRE mission will fill in missing data from Earth’s polar regions. Two new miniature NASA satellites will start crisscrossing Earth’s atmosphere in a few months, detecting heat lost to space. Their observations from the planet’s most bone-chilling regions will help predict how our ice, […]
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PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment), Climate Change, Cryosphere, Earth, Ice & Glaciers, Oceans
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February 12, 2024
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