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The Earth Observer: Jan - Feb, 2015
In This Issue
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- Editor’s Corner Front Cover
- Feature Articles
- 15@15: 15 Things Terra has Taught Us in Its 15 Years4
- SMAP: Mapping Soil Moisture and Freeze/Thaw State from Space14
- NASA’s Hyperwall: Around the World in 201420
- Meeting/Workshop Summaries
- The SMAP Early Adopters Program and the Impact on Prelaunch Research24
- Summary of 2014 GOFC-GOLD Fire Implementation Team Meeting29
- Joint CERES, ScaRaB, and GERB Science Team Meeting34
- NASA Sounder Science Team Meeting39
- Kudos
- Congratulations William T. Pecora Award Winners!41
- In The News
- NASA’s Spaceborne Carbon Counter Maps New Details42
- NASA Satellites Measure Increase of Sun’s Energy Absorbed in the Arctic44
- NASA Analysis: 11 Trillion Gallons to Replenish California Drought Losses45
- Snow in the Northeastern U.S.46
- Regular Features
- NASA Earth Science in the News 48
- NASA Science Mission Directorate – Science Education and Public Outreach Update 50
- Science Calendars 51
Editor’s Corner
Steve Platnick, EOS Senior Project Scientist
NASA’s Earth Science Division is off to a roaring start in 2015! Two new Earth Science missions have already launched, and a third joint mission with NOAA and the U.S. Air Force, which includes two Earth observing instruments that will view the Earth from a never-before-seen perspective, is planned for early February.
A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully carried the Cloud Aerosol Transport System (CATS) payload (along with other cargo) to the International Space Station onboard a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 4:47 AM EST on January 10, 2015. On January 22, CATS was installed on the space station’s Japanese Experiment Module – Exposed Facility (JEM-EF)—the first NASA-developed payload to ever fly on the JEM-EF. Systems have been powered up and preliminary indications are that everything is functioning nominally. The plan moving forward is...
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