After five years, NASA's Aura shines brightly
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 22:14
in Earth & Climate
On 15 July 2004 NASA's Aura spacecraft launched from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on a mission to study Earth's ozone layer, air quality and climate. Aura's data are helping scientists address global climate change issues such as global warming; the global transport, distribution and chemistry of polluted air; and ozone depletion in the stratosphere, the layer of Earth's atmosphere that extends from roughly 15 to 50 kilometres (10 to 30 miles) in altitude...