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CALIPSO: Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (PDF)
Formation Flying: The Afternoon "A-Train" Satellite Constellation (PDF)
CloudSat (PDF)
Aerosols: More Than Meets the Eye (PDF)
Atmospheric Aerosols: What Are They and Why Are They So Important? (PDF)
Satellites - A Global View of Earth (PDF)
Using Lasers to Study Our Atmosphere (PDF)
The Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE): Using Satellites to Better Understand the Earth's Climate (PDF)
Biomass Burning: A Hot Issue in Global Change (PDF)
CNES, the French Space Agency, published this document about the CALIPSO mission. (PDF)
A list of useful links and fact sheets. (PDF)


NASA Langley Research Center	Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales	Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.	Institut Pierre Simon Laplace	Hampton University

CALIPSO is a collaboration between NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC), the French space agency CNES, Hampton University, the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL), and Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. The primary roles and contributions of these partners can be found at http://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov. This mission is part of NASA's Earth System Science Pathfinder (ESSP) Program, a series of missions designed to examine critical issues in Earth system science.

CALIPSO Outreach Director: Dianne Q. Robinson
CALIPSO Assistant Outreach Director: Barbara H. Maggi

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Last Updated: August 18, 2006