NASA’s CloudSat Ends Mission Peering Into the Heart of Clouds - NASA
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 peere...
- calipso (cloud-aerosol lidar and infrared pathfinder satellite)
- climate change
- cloudsat
- earth
- earth science
Source: NASA
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 […]
