CloudSat - CloudSat
CloudSat Satellite Mission
Since 2006, CloudSat has flown the first satellite-based millimeter-wavelength cloud radar—a radar with more than 1000 times the sensitivity of existing weather radars. Unlike ground-based weather radars that use centimeter wavelengths to detect raindrop-sized particles, CloudSat's radar allows us to detect the much smaller particles of liquid water and ice that constitute the large cloud masses that make our weather.
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