Earth Newslink: Four Decades And Counting: New NASA Instrument Continues Measuring Solar Energy Input To Earth 🌍

in #newslink7 years ago

The Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE), launched in 2003, currently measuring total solar irradiance from space, observed a dip in the irradiance during intense solar flare activity in September 2017. TSIS-1 will continue these observations with one-third the uncertainty of its predecessor.

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Full article in NASA Global Climate Change: https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2659/four-decades-and-counting-new-nasa-instrument-continues-measuring-solar-energy-input-to-earth/