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Thorsten Fehr
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Head of Atmospheric Section at the European Space Agency (ESA) | EarthCARE Mission Scientist
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Launched today: the EarthCARE Science web site, to promote and support the widest possible international exploitation of #EarthCARE data! Includes: explainers of the scientific applications of the satellite (more to come), meet the team, tools, web stories, history and more. www.earthcarescience.net
March 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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NASA closes offices, lays off staff as it prepares for larger workforce reductions

NASA is closing three offices and laying off their staff as a first step in broader workforce reductions at the agency ordered by the Trump administration.
NASA closes offices, lays off staff as it prepares for larger workforce reductions
NASA is closing three offices and laying off their staff as a first step in broader workforce reductions at the agency ordered by the Trump administration.
spacenews.com
March 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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The #EarthCARE satellite will improve the modelling of #clouds, #aerosols and #precipitation in several ways.

Find out about using EarthCARE’s instruments to infer the properties of clouds and how they interact with radiation

➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...

@esa.int
March 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
March 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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EarthCARE scanned into Cyclone #Rae in the South Pacific earlier today, February 24, as it affected Fiji.
February 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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🌍 With our #EarthCARE satellite and its four instruments all working well and fully commissioned, the mission’s ‘first level’ data stream is now freely available. #EarthObservation #EO #RemoteSensing
EarthCARE goes live with data now available to all
With ESA’s EarthCARE satellite and four measuring instruments all working extremely well and fully commissioned, the mission’s ‘first level’ data stream is now freely available.By combining data from ...
www.esa.int
January 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
🛰️ ESA’s EarthCARE satellite mission helps unravel the detailed internal physics of polar stratospheric clouds. 🐉Launched in May 2024, EarthCARE already provides first datasets to the science community for these mysterious clouds over both the Arctic and Antarctica. ☁️

earth.esa.int/eogateway/su...
EarthCARE’s incredible images of winter in the stratosphere - Earth Online
Rare, mysterious and beautiful polar stratospheric clouds have dazzled sky-gazers with their rainbow-coloured hues this winter. Thanks to EarthCARE’s newly released Level 1 data, we can observe them i...
earth.esa.int
February 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Join us in shaping the future of Earth science from space.

ESA invites to the selection of the next Earth Explorer mission at the User Consultation Meeting in Prague, 9 July 2025.

Two equally exiting atmospheric missions are competing: CAIRT and WIVERN

More at: atpi.eventsair.com/ee11ucm/
Home - 25M06 - EE11 User Consultation Meeting
UCM 2023, UCM, ESA, User Consultation Meeting, UCM2023, Bucharest, UCM Bucharest
atpi.eventsair.com
February 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
For all Master students, PhD students and Postdocs 💫

ESA is preparing for the Living Planet Symposium 2025 (LPS25) in Vienna, 23-27 June 2025, and is coordinating student grants on behalf of the European Commission.

Check it out 👉 lps25.esa.int/student-gran...
February 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM