Andrew Paul is Popular Science's staff writer covering tech news. Previously, he was a regular contributor to The A.V. Club and Input, and has had recent work featured by Rolling Stone, Fangoria, GQ, Slate, NBC, as well as McSweeney's Internet Tendency. He lives outside Indianapolis.
ArticleBody:The European Space Agency has conducted numerous satellite missions for its ongoing Earth Explorer program since 2009, but its new cloud-centric project is reportedly its most complex yet. Set to launch later today aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base, EarthCARE will utilize four state-of-the-art tools to offer researchers “a holistic view of the interplay between clouds, aerosols, and radiation,” according to its launch announcement.
An atmospheric lidar system will assess cloud-top information while JAXA’s cloud profiling radar will investigate clouds’ internal dynamics, overall motion, and vertical structuring. Next to those tools, a broadband radiometer will measure both incoming solar radiation and outgoing infrared radiation as a multispectral imager provides broader wavelength data.
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