{"id":2570,"date":"2024-12-04T15:06:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T15:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portal.maap.eo.esa.int\/earthcare\/?page_id=2570"},"modified":"2025-02-06T11:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T11:11:22","slug":"earthcare-mission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/portal.maap.eo.esa.int\/earthcare\/earthcare-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"EarthCARE Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221; text_color=&#8221;var(&#8211;porto-dark-color)&#8221;]ESA\u2019s Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) satellite mission has been designed to make a range of different measurements aiming at quantifying cloud-aerosol-radiation interactions in order to correctly include them in climate and numerical weather forecasting models.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite, launched on 29 May 2024, at 00:20 CEST, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, embarks four different instruments: an atmospheric lidar (ATLID), a cloud profiling radar (CPR), a multispectral imager (MSI) and a broad-band radiometer (BBR) The two active instruments, ATLID and CPR, examine the atmosphere to collect data at a microscopic level, observing clouds, aerosols and precipitation. The two passive instruments (MSI and BRR), provide complementary optical and radiation measurements, necessary for scientific products.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2571&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_shadow_3d&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) was successfully completed, followed by a six-month commissioning period, during which EarthCARE\u2019s four instruments were gradually switched on, calibrated and their performances verified.<\/p>\n<p>Details about the mission can be found at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/earth.esa.int\/eogateway\/missions\/earthcare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EarthCARE mission page<\/a><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221; text_color=&#8221;var(&#8211;porto-dark-color)&#8221;]ESA\u2019s Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) satellite mission has been designed to make a range of different measurements aiming at quantifying cloud-aerosol-radiation interactions in order to correctly include them in climate and numerical weather forecasting models. The satellite, launched on 29 May 2024, at 00:20 CEST, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2570","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portal.maap.eo.esa.int\/earthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portal.maap.eo.esa.int\/earthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portal.maap.eo.esa.int\/earthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portal.maap.eo.esa.int\/earthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portal.maap.eo.esa.int\/earthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/portal.maap.eo.esa.int\/earthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2781,"href":"https:\/\/portal.maap.eo.esa.int\/earthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2570\/revisions\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portal.maap.eo.esa.int\/earthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}