EarthCARE bids adieu to Europe

After years of development and a rigorous testing programme, ESA’s EarthCARE satellite has left Munich, Germany, and is now on its away to SpaceX’s launch site in Vandenberg, California. Once it arrives, it will be put into storage for a few weeks until it is time to ready the satellite for liftoff - which is scheduled to launch in May on a Falcon 9 rocket.
The Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer, or EarthCARE for short, is the most complex Earth Explorer mission to date. The new satellite will look at the role that clouds and aerosols play in heating and cooling Earth’s atmosphere - contributing to our understanding of climate change.
With its unique set of four instruments, EarthCARE will examine the role clouds and aerosols play in reflecting solar radiation back into space and also in trapping infrared radiation emitted from Earth’s surface.
EarthCARE is a joint venture between ESA and JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
This video features interviews with Simonetta Cheli, Director of Earth Observation Programmes at ESA, Thorsten Fehr, ESA’s EarthCARE Mission Scientist, Dirk Bernaerts, ESA’s EarthCARE Project Manager and Eiichi Tomita, JAXA’s EarthCARE/CPR Project Manager.
Credits: ESA - European Space Agency
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[@MacDaddy8200]

Thats huge, danish astrophysicist Henrik Svensmark published a theory in a book in 2007 called Chilling Stars that pointed on exactly these factors as missing in todays climate models. Exciting what the end results will be.

[@DehnusNorder]

Basically: "I DO NOT BELIEVE SCIENTIST! But this scientist agrees with me! As I don't have to change then!" the reaction.

[@MacDaddy8200]

@@DehnusNorder I do very much believe in science, and thats exactly why every angle has to be researched, and alot of climate research is just theories right now but we need to look for the facts.

[@DehnusNorder]

@@MacDaddy8200 Dude that person has been proven wrong over andover, and he only has doubled down further. You just don't wish to change anything, folks get that, it's comforting to keep going as we are. But his books are bogus. Also: All science is theory, until proven better. It's how science works.
It's just more denialism and you fell for it.

[@kevinh22]

This mission is very interesting, it will reveal great data. Good luck with the mission! And thanks to ESA for keeping us informed about the missions💙

[@DavidODuvall]

Wishing you the best of luck on this mission!

[@YouTube_username.]

Just the right size payload to watch stage one of the rocket return to the landing zone

[@NunoPereira.]

Congratulations for developing this state of the art mission which might reveal very important information !

[@shivabalannagakumaran6019]

I personally like this satellite being developed by European Space Agency and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in order to learn more about Climate Change!

[@Pottery4Life]

Thank you. Best wishes.

[@rahulkumar.8552]

Good ESA 😅😃😀😅😅❤❤❤

[@MioDenSmarta.]

ESA is so cool 😎!

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⭐️🎖

[@ptonpc]

Safe flight!

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🎩 .

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🤔!

[@Arsenic71]

What, we can't launch our own satellites??

[@Elkiuboleske]

Why is this supposed to be important?

[@tee3553]

I guess it for research purpose. There are many things we don't know yet. If we understand this area, we can understand what we need to do to make Mars a place that supports life.

[@hamzahkhan8952]

monitor and predict weather better. better climate models. get more data for helping pressure governments into fighting climate change. there are actually quite a lot of important things that come out of this mission.