Posted on Thursday, February 12, 2015
NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 6:03 EST, 23:03 GMT on February 11th, 2015.
It will be heading out to the L1 point, where there's already NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) that has been the primary source for warnings of solar magnetic storms heading towards Earth. Now DSCOVR will join the game.
DSCOVR also has instruments onboard for observing the Earth and measuring changes in Earth's radiation and amounts of ozone and aerosols in the atmosphere.
To find out more about this mission, visit http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR/
It will be heading out to the L1 point, where there's already NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) that has been the primary source for warnings of solar magnetic storms heading towards Earth. Now DSCOVR will join the game.
DSCOVR also has instruments onboard for observing the Earth and measuring changes in Earth's radiation and amounts of ozone and aerosols in the atmosphere.
To find out more about this mission, visit http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR/