Over the course of nearly two decades, its powerful radar provided never-before-seen details of clouds and helped advance global weather and climate predictions. CloudSat, a NASA mission that peered into hurricanes, tallied global snowfall rates, and achieved other weather and climate firsts, has ended its operations. Originally proposed as a 22-month mission, the spacecraft was […]
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CloudSat, CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite), Climate Change, Earth, Earth Science, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Water on Earth
Posted on
April 23, 2024
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