At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, engineers are preparing the next Earth-observing NASA mission, Glory, which is slated to launch in late February. Glory carries the LASP-built Total Irradiance Monitor (TIM) instrument, which will be directed towards the sun and will measure the intensity of solar radiation that enters the Earth’s atmosphere.
A NASA press conference about Glory on January 20, 2011, included Greg Kopp, a research scientist at LASP. Kopp is the leader of the TIM science team.
For more details on the Glory mission and its key science objectives, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/Glory/news/climate-puzzle.html.
