FORUM Archive
ESA's thermal radiation mission
The mission
Carrying a Fourier transform spectrometer, FORUM – short for Far-infrared Outgoing Radiation Understanding and Monitoring – will measure Earth’s outgoing radiation in the far-infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum that has never been measured from space before. Data from FORUM will provide unique insight into Earth’s radiation budget and how it is controlled, thereby fill in a missing piece of the climate jigsaw.
- 0.1 K accuracy
- 15 km diameter footprint
- 10630 water lines
- 0.1 mm in the far-infrared
