Astronomy Cast Ep. 461: Measuring the Weather with Satellites

By susie - October 16, 2017 at 2:35 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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What's the weather doing? Is it going to rain today? How much? What about temperatures? We depend on modern weather forecasting, thanks, in part to the vast network of weather satellites. What instruments do they have, what orbits do they use.

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