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Satellites reveal pollution is worsening fog over North India
20 Jan 2026 15:09 GMT
Winter fog over the Indo-Gangetic Plain is infamous for bringing daily life to a standstill. Every year, dense fog disrupts flights, delays trains, slows road traffic and causes widespread economic losses across northern India.
While fog itself is not new, …
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Laser Satellites Reveal Hidden Antarctic Carbon Burst: Uncovering Climate Implications for Our Global Future
09 Nov 2025 10:59 GMT
… an “observational black box.” Traditional satellites, which rely on passive sensors … as LIDAR, part of the CALIPSO mission, to collect data over …
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Laser Satellites Expose a Secret Antarctic Carbon Burst
08 Nov 2025 07:55 GMT
… ;observational black box." Traditional satellites, which depend on reflected sunlight … instrument called LIDAR (on the CALIPSO mission) with machine learning analysis …
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Calipso: The Pulse of Resistance and Rhythm Across Afro-Caribbean Culture
03 Jul 2025 20:06 GMT
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More than just festive music, calipso remains a living testimony of Afro-descendant creativity, resistance, and memory. With roots in the Caribbean’s colonial past, this genre—shaped by African rhythms and layered with political …
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The Earth Observer: Offering Perspectives from Space through Time
30 Dec 2025 02:34 GMT
… gather data from Earth observing satellites, suborbital observations, and other experiments … (OCO-2), CloudSat, and the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO). In addition, Polarization and Anisotropy …
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Terra: The End of An Era
30 Dec 2025 02:34 GMT
… orbiting and low-inclination satellites that produce long- … (launched in 2014), the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO), and CloudSat (both launched … Unlike many previous, smaller satellites, Terra was designed from …
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Launch of a new European satellite to explore the effect of clouds on climate – DNOTICIAS.PT
29 May 2024 09:55 GMT
… NASA's CloudSat and CALIPSO satellites, whose missions are now complete …
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ECMWF: New satellite promises unprecedented data on clouds and aerosols
20 May 2024 10:37 GMT
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Helping to initialise forecasts
Satellites have a prominent role … from NASA’s CloudSat and CALIPSO satellites.
The results were encouraging: … is improved when CloudSat and CALIPSO data are assimilated.
The … developed for CloudSat and CALIPSO will have to be …
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BAE Systems-built CloudSat satellite completes nearly two decades-long mission
24 Apr 2024 07:15 GMT
The BAE Systems-built CloudSat satellite has officially ended operations after more than 17 years on orbit — CloudSat launched in April 2006 as part of a NASA-led mission to develop global cloud profiles to better understand how water and ice content …
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CALIPSO Concludes: Lidar Satellite Mission’s 10 Billion Measurements Yielded Vital Atmospheric Insights
28 Sep 2023 18:27 GMT
… a global scientific community.
CALIPSO, a lidar satellite … structures and aerosol layers.
Satellites’ Orbit & Observations … flights. Observations from CALIPSO allowed scientists to issue … , France, provided the CALIPSO spacecraft. The Canadian Space …