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Calipso has a minion!

Minion the Origami Star




Calipso
Legacy Name: Calipso


The Riftborn Ontra
Owner: kitty

Age: 5 years, 1 month, 2 weeks

Born: February 13th, 2019

Adopted: 5 years, 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Adopted: February 13th, 2019

Statistics


  • Level: 45
     
  • Strength: 152
     
  • Defense: 95
     
  • Speed: 10
     
  • Health: 64
     
  • HP: 54/64
     
  • Intelligence: 112
     
  • Books Read: 112
  • Food Eaten: 0
  • Job: Unemployed


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Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations.

Passive and active remote sensing Instruments on board the CALIPSO satellite monitor aerosols and clouds 24 hours a day. CALIPSO is part of the "A Train", flying in formation with several other satellites (Aqua, Aura and CloudSat).

creature of indeterminate species, lives at the edge of space in the uppermost atmosphere. planetary guardian

NASA launched the CloudSat and the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) spacecraft to study the role that clouds and aerosols play in regulating Earth's weather, climate and air quality. On April 28, 2006, the two spacecraft were launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., aboard a Boeing Delta II launch vehicle. The satellites were launched into a 705-kilometer (438-mile) circular sun-synchronous polar orbit, and fly in orbital formation as part of the "A-Train" constellation of three other Earth Observing satellites including Aqua, Aura and Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales' (CNES) PARASOL. Together, the A-Train satellites will substantially increase our understanding of the climate system and the potential for climate change. The CloudSat mission funded lifetime is 22 months to enable more than one seasonal cycle to be observed, although the radar lifetime is expected to approach three years. CALIPSO is planned for three years of on-orbit operation.

Scientists are improving their understanding of Earth's climate system, but many questions remain. Weather and climate models, the prediction tools scientists use to study the Earth system, are complicated, and the information scientists use to build the models is incomplete. CloudSat and CALIPSO collect information about the vertical structure of clouds and aerosols unavailable from other Earth observing satellites. Their data will improve our models and provide a better understanding of the human impact on the atmosphere. Policy makers and business leaders will make more informed long-term environmental decisions about public health, the economy and better day-to-day weather predictions as a result of these missions.

For the first time from Earth orbit, CloudSat and CALIPSO will:Provide statistics on the vertical structure of clouds around the globe (both missions)Provide statistics on the geographic and vertical distribution of aerosols around the globe (CALIPSO)Provide estimates of the percentage of Earth's clouds that produce rain (CloudSat)Detect subvisible clouds in the upper troposphere and Polar Stratospheric Clouds (CALIPSO)Provide vertically-resolved estimates of how much water and ice are in Earth's clouds (CloudSat)Detect snowfall from space (CloudSat)Estimate how efficiently the atmosphere produces rain from condensates (CloudSat)Provide an indirect estimate of how much clouds and aerosols contribute to atmospheric warming (both missions)


art and profile by kitty
background is is an infrared image of the
milky way galaxy by the Spitzer Space Telescope Did you hear the one about the day the moon fell to earth? It had a crater exactly the size of a human head on it and it landed on my head and now my head is the moon - or the one about the day a thousand lives from now when we return as a team of archeologists and discover fossils of ourselves in a former life on the day we spurned our nervous twitch and found our yearn to hint at winter bliss on the day the stars sang the national anthem of sweaty disbelief of coelacanth teeth to scream loud enough to shatter the roof of a coral reef and the shrapnel ground up into paint for robin's egg colored dream and root beer float second hand flavored drool absorbers and the words "hope" and "home" that sound the same smell the same as the day the doe caught a sad snowflake on her tongue and melted it in an instant and it tasted like the blackhole's wild-eyed longing for light whether from the starts that radiate or the planets that reflect it or the eyes that reflect the reflection or the eyes looking into those eyes and seeing the reflection of the eyes which if all goes according to plan will outlast the universe itself

Pet Treasure


Silver-Lined Cloud

Shy Sun Sticker

Confused Sky Sticker

Fancy Ringed Planet Ornament

Sweeping Tempest Marble

Colliding Planets Beanbag

Sunrise Fruit

Sunset Cloud Nine Beanbag

Swirling Twirling Galaxy

Sucking Black Hole

Lightning Cloud Model

Pet Friends