Continuous View of Clouds
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Credit
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
ICESat First Light Release: A Continuous View of Clouds
The GLAS laser system on ICESat is making unique measurements of the heights of clouds and their global distribution. In addition, ICESat can 'see' the distributions of aerosols from sources such as dust storms and forest fires. This animation shows the distribution of cloud layers as seens from the bird's-eye perspective of the ICESat spacecraft.
ICESat collecting cloud data