NCAR’s New Mini-Satellite Will Measure Howling Winds High in Earth’s Atmosphere

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Dec 14, 2021, 3:59 pm302 pts
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has received $6.5 million in funding from NASA to launch a roughly shoebox-sized satellite into space carrying an instrument designed to measure the howling thermospheric winds, which can gust more than 300 miles per hour through the highest reaches of the…

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