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Cloudsat Breathtaking Views Inside Storms
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on Thursday June 08, @09:56AM
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VerySpatial linked to a LiveScience article about Cloudsat's breathtaking views inside storms. From the article: "NASA's new CloudSat satellite reveals never-before-seen details of both the clouds and precipitation within a storm, from the Earth's surface to 19 miles high. [...] CloudSat works in the millimeter wavelength range. It is at least a thousand times more sensitive than any other satellite-based radar. And, unlike ground-based radar stations which have limited range, CloudSat can observe storms in the middle of an ocean."
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The BBC runs a story on the use of satellite to better the influence of clouds on climate. From the article: "The Cloudsat and Calipso missions will study how clouds and aerosols (fine particles) form, evolve and affect our climate, the weather and air quality. [...] The Cloudsat spacecraft carries an extremely sensitive radar. It sends short pulses of microwave energy down into the atmosphere, and by recording the way these pulses are scattered back to the satellite obtains a picture of the structure and water content of clouds."
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