The atmospheric lidar ATLID, the last of four instruments on board the EarthCARE satellite launched in May, has now been successfully put into operation. The mission is designed to measure clouds, ...
Will clouds help cool or warm our world in the years ahead? The EarthCARE satellite will soon blast off on a mission to find out, aiming to investigate what role clouds could play in the fight ...
Testing and preparing the EarthCARE cloud profile radar for the launch in California. One of the tasks was to open the satellite's 2.5 metre wide radar antenna, which creates the cloud profile.
B1081 was flying for the tenth time, having previously flown Crew-7, CRS-29, Starlink Group 6-34, PACE, Transporter 10, Starlink Group 8-1, EarthCARE, NROL-186, and Starlink 9-5. Its first flight was ...
Their Earthcare satellite used a Doppler radar to capture the view. The data reveals the density of ice, snow, and rain in the cloud, as well as the speed with which these particles are falling to ...
This analysis is particularly key as human-driven climate change continues to exacerbate these disasters. In May, satellites orbiting Earth watched hundreds of wildfires blaze across Canada and ...