Take a look back at pre-launch and launch coverage activities.
CALIPSO Features
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A-Train Outreach Jazzes Up Science With New Orleans Students
When NASA scientists visited New Orleans to set up the A-Train Symposium, employees at the hotel hosting the event asked them to reach out to local students.
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'A-Train' Satellites Search for 770 Million Tons of Dust in the Air
Scientists will spend the next three years trying to understand the climate impacts of about 770 million tons of dust carried into the atmosphere every year from the Sahara Desert.
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NASA Langley Helps Lead Math and Science Workshop for New Orleans Teachers
Twenty three New Orleans middle school teachers got the opportunity this week to strengthen their math and science teaching skills at a NASA-sponsored education workshop.
News Release Archive
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CALIPSO Takes Its One-Billionth Measurement
02.07.08 - On a Sunday morning in early February 2008, a laser pulse beamed down from 700 kilometers above Ivory Coast and took a 100-meter-wide picture of the atmosphere. It was CALIPSO's one-billionth measurement.
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Public Release of CALISPO Data Products →
12.08.06 - The CALIPSO team is pleased to announce an initial release of mission data products.
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CALIPSO's First Images Offer New Dimension to Air Quality and Climate Research
07.24.06 - The CALIPSO spacecraft collected its first data recently, a major milestone for one of NASA's newest satellite missions.
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