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NASA is preparing to launch its latest climate science mission, the Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-Infrared Experiment , which aims to capture brand new data on how heat is lost to space from Earth's polar regions.
PREFIRE consists of a pair of cubesats that will launch separately into near-polar orbits. The first,"Ready, Aim, PREFIRE," is set to launch no earlier than May 22, on alonger than 15 microns — that account for about 60 percent of the total heat lost at the poles.
The mission's dual-satellite approach allows researchers to gain a unique perspective on changes happening at our planet's poles."Having one cubesat would be able to sort of map out what the emission looks like in the polar regions," L'Ecuyer explained.
Like with all of NASA's climate research, White says PREFIRE data will be accessible by the public:"All NASA data are open and freely available to all scientists or all people who are interested around the world. That's part of our open science data policy, and that would certainly be true for this mission.
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