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NASA recently announced that twin shoebox-size climate satellites will soon be studying two of the most remote regions on Earth: the Arctic and Antarctic. The mission will measure the amount of heat the planet emits into space from these polar regions.
The mission will boost our understanding of how much heat Earth’s polar regions radiate out to space and how that influences our climate, NASA said.
The CubeSats would provide new details on how Earth’s atmosphere and ice influence the amount of heat being radiated out to space from the Arctic and Antarctic. The data from the twin satellites would also help improve polar and global climate models.