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View a slide PowerPoint animation entitled "What is LIDAR?" The file size is 165K.

View a one page summary of the CALIPSO mission.

View the Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. PowerPoint presentation that shows preparations for the CALIPSO LIDAR test preformed the week of December 8, 2003. The entire file size is 4.335 MB.

Download the Cloud Match Game in PDF format. This game tests your memory and teaches about the ten main cloud types. Print and follow the instructions on page one. To play the online version of this game, visit the atmospheric arcade.

Download a CALIPSO Bookmark in PDF format.

Free CALIPSO Desktop Wallpaper
Educators and students may download this CALIPSO graphic to use as computer wallpaper. This graphic may not be reproduced for commercial purposes. We would like to thank Alcatel for use of this CALIPSO graphic.


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

Web Curator: Emily M. W. Hill
Last Updated: November 7, 2007