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[Phys-l] FYI: Fwd: Climate sensor on the job




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From: "T.K. Wang & Mary Brooks" <tkmary@dslextreme.com>
Date: 2012, February 01, 17:05:30 PST
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
Subject: Fw: Climate sensor on the job


----- Original Message ----- From: <RN@rettacs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 3:59 PM
Subject: Climate sensor on the job


This is the project I've managed since 2006 at Northrop Grumman Corp. Launch was in late October 2011 and the instruments on the satellite are starting to return data after turn on and checkout.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NPP/news/npp-ceres-firstlight.html
'First Light' Taken by NASA's Newest CERES Instrument
The doors are open on NASA's Suomi NPP satellite and the newest version of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrument is scanning Earth for the first time, helping to assure continued availability of measurements of the energy leaving the Earth-atmosphere system.
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--- R



bc thanks tkmary.