Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Following a rigorous selection process, ESA has selected a new satellite mission to fill in a critical missing piece of the climate jigsaw. By measuring radiation emitted by Earth into space, FORUM will provide new insight into the planet's radiation budget and how it is controlled.
The Far-infrared Outgoing Radiation Understanding and Monitoring (FORUM) mission was one of two concepts competing to be ESA's ninth Earth Explorer mission.
Earth Explorers use innovative measurement techniques to yield new insight into different aspects of the Earth system and the interactions that bind the system as a whole. Fundamentally, they are designed and built to fill scientific community, so, importantly, the community retains a key role in the selection and development process.
After a two-year feasibility study phase, both FORUM and its competitor, the Sea-surface Kinematics Multiscale monitoring (SKIM) concept, were presented and discussed in detail with the scientific community at a User Consultation Meeting in Cambridge, UK, in July.
Wolfram Mauser, who chaired ESA's Advisory Committee for Earth Observation on behalf of Martin Visbeck, said, "Both mission concepts are outstanding in the value they would bring to science, and are technologically ready to be built, so it was difficult to recommend which one should be implemented.
"Nevertheless, FORUM promises to improve climate models and, therefore, climate prediction. So with the issue of climate change a major global concern, we finally decided to recommend this concept—and we are very happy that ESA has taken our recommendation."
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 25 2019, @06:19AM (1 child)
Those clowns waste tax-payer money on a hoax, the Earth is not warming up.
Defund NASA immediately, until they learn to do proper science with Americans money!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 25 2019, @09:46AM
I'd rather delete your brain.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 25 2019, @09:50AM
Apparently there hasn't been any major mission looking at the Earth in this wavelength.
I don't see anything about the altitude or size. I think it would be in low earth orbit, not at L1 like DSCOVR.
(Score: -1) by MyOpinion on Wednesday September 25 2019, @11:47AM (3 children)
You cannot demonstrate gas pressure without a container.
Propulsion by means of "squirting gas" into a vacuum does not work either.
Yet, NASA/RASA etc will claim that this magic place exists, and they send their special vacuum-hardened and thermosphere-tolerant magic space machines to get a "top view" of the place you live?
Lots of claims, lots of CGI, lots of words, very little to no evidence.
Truth is like a Lion: you need not defend it; let it loose, and it defends itself. https://discord.gg/3FScNwc
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 25 2019, @12:10PM
You need to check in to the nearest gas chamber for a demonstration of hydrogen cyanide. No pressure.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 25 2019, @02:12PM
Mr. Newton would like a word with you, friend. [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 26 2019, @03:34AM
Squirting gas sounds like something Microsoft would think up.