'First light' taken by NASA's newest CERES instrument
Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 08:01
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- 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.