{"id":783076,"date":"2024-05-29T04:37:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T09:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=783076"},"modified":"2024-05-29T04:37:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T09:37:54","slug":"satellite-to-understand-earths-radiation-balance-takes-to-the-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=783076","title":{"rendered":"Satellite to understand Earth\u2019s radiation balance takes to the skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>ESA\u2019s EarthCARE satellite lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, US, on 29 May at 00:20 CEST (28 May, 15:20 local time).<\/p>\n<p>The Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer satellite, or EarthCARE for short, carries a set of four instruments to make a range of different measurements that together will shed new light on\u00a0the interplay between clouds, aerosols, incoming solar energy and outgoing radiation, which together regulate Earth\u2019s climate. With the climate crisis increasingly affecting our planet, EarthCARE is poised to provide key data for climate research, to improve the accuracy of climate models and to support numerical weather prediction.<\/p>\n<p>EarthCARE has been developed as a cooperation between ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2024\/05\/Satellite_to_understand_Earth_s_radiation_balance_takes_to_the_skies?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA\u2019s EarthCARE satellite lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, US, on 29 May at 00:20 CEST (28 May, 15:20 local&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":783077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783076","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=783076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/783077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=783076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=783076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=783076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}