A satelite of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (POT), small in size and designed to carry out measurements detailed information on heat loss, was launched into space from New Zealand, with the mission of studying the polar regions of the Earth.
“This new information, so far unpublishedwill allow us better understand the phenomena that occur at the poles and their impact on the climate,” he commented at a press conference in mid-May Karen St. Germainresponsible for Earth-related scientific research at NASA.
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The mission called PREFER has as purpose improve forecasts of scientists on climate change. The shoebox-sized satellite was launched by a Electron rocket from the Rocket Lab company from Mahia, in northern New Zealand.
Through PREFIRE, NASA seeks to understand how factors such as cloudsthe humidity and the transformation of a frozen surface in liquid affect heat loss on Earth.
Until now, the models used to predict global warming were based solely on theorieslacking real observations in this regard.
This satellite joins more than twenty missions of NASA dedicated to Earth observation, already in orbit.
