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New Satellite Set to Monitor the Sun and Reflected Heat to Determine Climate Effects

The solar forecast calls for sluggish times ahead, according to scientists in Boulder, Colo.- which could have a cooling effect on Earth. A better understanding of solar processes and their climatic impacts will be key to understanding how far such quiescence could go to counteract global warming caused by pollution from fossil fuels.
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Glory satellite Set to Launch Feb. 23 on Climate Mission



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A Taurus XL rocket is set to carry NASA's Glory satellite to space in a launch early Wednesday morning at Vandenberg Air Force Base, two years after a failure abruptly ended another NASA mission with the same kind of rocket.
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Probe keeps keen eye on Sun

At some point Greg Kopp just got tired of the questions. Every time the solar physicist showed a plot of the Sun's total radiation output as measured by a succession of satellites since 1978, he had to explain an unexpectedly large offset starting around 2003. That was the year NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) was launched, carrying a new type of sensor developed by Kopp and his team at the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics in Boulder.
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NASA is preparing to launch an environmental monitoring satellite designed to maintain and bolster a continuous record of solar energy, while providing new details about aerosols, which reflect and absorb the Sun's rays passing through the atmosphere.
The Glory mission is scheduled to launch on 23 February aboard a four-stage Taurus XL 3110 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Once in space, Glory will join the Afternoon Constellation, or A-Train - an ensemble of satellites studying changes in Earth's climate system.
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Orbital Sciences Corporation, one of the world's leading space technology companies, today announced that the Glory satellite has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA to be integrated with the company's Taurus XL rocket that will launch the satellite into low-Earth orbit in late February
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Want to hitch a ride on NASA's next climate monitoring satellite? Join the Glory mission, which will launch no earlier than Oct. 1, by surfing over to the Send Your Name Around the Earth web page. Names will be recorded on a microchip built into the satellite, and you will get a printable certificate from NASA acknowledging your participation.
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Members of the public can send their names around Earth on NASA's Glory satellite, the first mission dedicated to understanding the effects of particles in the atmosphere and the sun's variability on our climate.

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The Glory satellite is a planned NASA satellite mission that will collect data on the chemical, micro-physical and optical properties -- and the spatial and temporal distributions -- of aerosols, and will collect solar irradiance data for the long-term climate record.

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Send Your Name Around the Earth
Members of the public can send their names around Earth on NASA's Glory satellite, the first mission dedicated to understanding the effects of particles in the atmosphere and the sun's variability on our climate.

The Glory Mission will:

   1. Measure solar energy entering the Earth's atmosphere
   2. Collect data on the properties of natural and human-caused
      aerosols in the Earth's atmosphere

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