The Sun delivers roughly 1,361 watts of energy to every square meter at the top of Earth’s atmosphere, a figure now anchored by satellite measurements and adopted as an international standard. When ...
On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a cosmic ray detector, was designed to measure the radiation environment in Earth ...
How do you measure climate change? One way is by recording temperatures in different places over a long period of time. While this works well, natural variation can make it harder to see longer-term ...