{"id":1977,"date":"2015-01-06T10:37:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T10:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2015-01-06T10:37:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T10:37:28","slug":"measuring-clouds-and-aerosols-from-the-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/measuring-clouds-and-aerosols-from-the-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring Clouds and Aerosols From the Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10679693_341416362730475_1859460646115714789_o.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1978 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10679693_341416362730475_1859460646115714789_o.jpg\" alt=\"10679693_341416362730475_1859460646115714789_o\" width=\"946\" height=\"630\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10679693_341416362730475_1859460646115714789_o.jpg 946w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10679693_341416362730475_1859460646115714789_o-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 946px) 100vw, 946px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">Clouds can be observed from the International Space Station moving across Earth\u2019s surface, as in this image of New Zealand taken by Expedition 42 Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti. Other tiny solid and liquid particles called aerosols are also being transported around the atmosphere, but these are largely invisible to our eyes. To investigate the layers and composition of clouds and tiny airborne particles like dust, smoke and other atmospheric aerosols, scientists at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland have developed\u00a0<a style=\"color: #273da2 !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/goddard\/cats-eyes-clouds-smoke-and-dust-from-the-space-station\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an Earth-observing instrument called the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System, or CATS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">The CATS instrument, set to launch to the space station\u00a0aboard the fifth SpaceX commercial resupply flight, will be the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #273da2 !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press\/2014\/september\/nasa-launches-new-era-of-earth-science-from-space-station\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second NASA Earth-observing instrument<\/a>\u00a0to be mounted on the exterior of the station. CATS will provide data about aerosols at different levels of the atmosphere. The data are expected to improve scientists&#8217; ability to track different cloud and aerosol types throughout the atmosphere. These datasets will be used to improve strategic and hazard-warning capabilities of events in near real-time, such as tracking plumes from dust storms, volcanic eruptions, and wildfires. The information could also feed into climate models to help understand the effects of clouds and aerosols on Earth\u2019s energy balance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><em>Image Credit: NASA\/ESA\/Samantha Cristoforetti<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description: Clouds can be observed from the International Space Station moving across Earth\u2019s surface, as in this image of New Zealand taken by Expedition 42 Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti. Other tiny solid and liquid particles called aerosols are also being transported around the atmosphere, but these are largely invisible to our eyes. To investigate the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10679693_341416362730475_1859460646115714789_o.jpg",946,630,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10679693_341416362730475_1859460646115714789_o-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10679693_341416362730475_1859460646115714789_o-300x199.jpg",300,199,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10679693_341416362730475_1859460646115714789_o.jpg",750,499,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10679693_341416362730475_1859460646115714789_o.jpg",750,499,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10679693_341416362730475_1859460646115714789_o.jpg",946,630,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10679693_341416362730475_1859460646115714789_o.jpg",946,630,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10679693_341416362730475_1859460646115714789_o.jpg",946,630,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10679693_341416362730475_1859460646115714789_o.jpg",856,570,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10679693_341416362730475_1859460646115714789_o.jpg",600,400,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10679693_341416362730475_1859460646115714789_o.jpg",600,400,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10679693_341416362730475_1859460646115714789_o.jpg",736,490,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10679693_341416362730475_1859460646115714789_o.jpg",541,360,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10679693_341416362730475_1859460646115714789_o.jpg",95,63,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10679693_341416362730475_1859460646115714789_o.jpg",640,426,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10679693_341416362730475_1859460646115714789_o.jpg",96,64,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10679693_341416362730475_1859460646115714789_o.jpg",150,100,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Amrita Tuladhar"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/feature\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Feature<\/a>","tag_info":"Feature","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}