{"id":311369,"date":"2017-05-05T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=6183d6947da1dc7bc4234604179bc9f3"},"modified":"2017-05-05T08:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T12:00:01","slug":"atmospheric-infrared-sounder-airs-marks-15-years-of-seeing-whats-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=311369","title":{"rendered":"Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) marks 15 years of seeing what&#8217;s in the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Accurate weather forecasts save lives. NASA&#8217;s Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument, launched on this date 15 years ago on NASA&#8217;s Aqua satellite, significantly increased weather forecasting accuracy within a couple of years by providing extraordinary three-dimensional maps of clouds, air temperature and water vapor throughout the atmosphere&#8217;s weather-making layer. Fifteen years later, AIRS continues to be a valuable asset for forecasters worldwide, sending 7 billion observations streaming into forecasting centers every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accurate weather forecasts save lives. NASA&#8217;s Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument, launched on this date 15 years ago on NASA&#8217;s Aqua satellite, significantly increased weather forecasting accuracy within a couple of years by providing extrao&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311370,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311369\/revisions\/311370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}