PARIS – Will clouds help cool or warm our world in the years ahead?
The EarthCARE satellite will soon blast off on a mission to find out, aiming to investigate what role clouds could play in the fight against climate change.The collaboration between the European Space Agency and Japan's JAXA space agency is scheduled to launch Tuesday on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from California's Vandenberg base.
Dark clouds cover Metro Manila in this file photo taken in Rizal province. PNA The two-tonne satellite will orbit nearly 400 kilometers above Earth for three years, building a complete profile of those fluffy clouds over our heads.'They are one of the main contributors to how the climate changes — and one of the least understood,' Dominique Gillieron, head of the ESA's Earth observation projects department, told Agence France-Presse.
Satellite To Probe How Clouds Affect Climate
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