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The Earth Observer: Sep - Oct 2014
In This Issue
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- Editor’s Corner Front Cover
- Feature Articles
- ISS-RapidScat: Measuring Ocean Winds from the International Space Station4
- NASA Provides a Global View at the Our Ocean Conference10
- Using EOS Data to Improve Aerosol Forecasting: The International Cooperative for Aerosol Prediction (ICAP)14
- Meeting/Workshop Summaries
- MODIS Science Team Meeting Summary20
- In The News
- Ozone-Depleting Compound Persists, NASA Research Shows23
- Snow Cover on Arctic Sea Ice Has Thinned 30 to 50 Percent24
- NASA Begins Hurricane Mission with Global Hawk Flight to Cristobal25
- Smoke in Yosemite27
- Regular Features
- NASA Earth Science in the News 28
- NASA Science Mission Directorate – Science Education and Public Outreach Update 30
- Science Calendars 31
Editor’s Corner
Steve Platnick
EOS Senior Project Scientist
In this issue we highlight the recently launched ISS-RapidScat mission that will observe ocean surface vector winds from the space station. RapidScat was successfully launched on September 21 at 1:52 AM EDT, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, as part of the SpaceX-4 Dragon resupply mission to the ISS. The mission provides data to scientists and weather forecasters to mitigate the loss of SeaWinds instrument data from the QuikSCAT mission.
A unique aspect about the mission is that...
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