Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Sea Level Mission Will Also Act as a Precision Thermometer in Space

Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 07, 2020
When a satellite by the name of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich launches this November, its primary focus will be to monitor sea level rise with extreme precision. But an instrument aboard the spacecraft will also provide atmospheric data that will improve weather forecasts, track hurricanes, and bolster climate models. "Our fundamental goal with Sentinel-6 is to measure the oceans, but the mo

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