"Aeolus will precisely measure wind flow and air currents on the Earth, improving weather forecasting, and ultimately our ability to protect the environment."
Joint mission of the Chinese (CNSA) and French (CNES) space agencies with goal of monitoring ocean surface winds and waves and providing information on related ocean and atmospheric science and applications.
The data collected by the satellite will allow improvement in knowledge on the water cycle contribution to the climate dynamic in the tropical atmosphere and our understanding of the processes linked to the tropical convection.
Measures carbon dioxide.
"Joint effort, ISRO and CNES."
"Funded and built in India to join an international fleet of orbiting radars designed to track hurricanes, typhoons and other tropical cyclones."
"SMAP provide the most accurate, highest-resolution global measurements of soil moisture ever obtained from space and will detect whether the ground is frozen or thawed. "
Mission to measure sea surface salinity and soil moisture on a global scale.
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