Less than a month after it was launched, ESA’s EarthCARE satellite returned the first image from one of its instruments – an image that, for the first time from space, unveils the internal structure and dynamics of clouds. Image here shows the same cloud system observed from the Himawari-9 meteorological satellite in geostationary orbit. It has been overlaid with EarthCARE’s orbital track, giving context to EarthCARE’s first image.
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