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full screen A new satellite from the American space agency Nasa will examine climate change around the North and South Poles. Archive image. Photo: Jonas Ekströmer/TT
The US space agency Nasa has sent up a satellite to monitor climate change and thereby improve predictions of deterioration. The satellite, which is part of the Prefire space program, will primarily examine heat emissions and changes at the two poles.
– The new information will improve our predictions about what is happening at the poles and what is happening with the climate, says the director of NASA’s Earth research, Karen St Germain.
Among other things, the satellite will use infrared radiation in the measurements. In the past, calculations have mainly been made through calculations, rather than observations.
The satellite, the size of a shoebox, was launched from a space base in Mahia, New Zealand, using an Electron model rocket.
Partners in the satellite project are the space company Rocket Lab and the University of Wisconsin in Madison.