For Release: October 1, 1998
Keith Henry
(757) 864-6120
Release No. 98-82
NOTE TO EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS:
October, 1998
Lakewood, NJ Students Observe Clouds for NASA
During the school day, most teachers prefer that their students
keep their heads in the classroom. At Clifton Avenue Grade School,
however, teachers are encouraging their students to keep their
heads in the clouds.
Elementary school students at the school are learning to observe
clouds as part of a NASA global cloud measuring project. The
Students' Cloud Observations On-Line
(S'COOL) project is part of a satellite experiment that
began late last year with the launch of an instrument developed by
researchers at NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.
The students are learning how to observe clouds and send their
observations to a NASA computer. The students' observations will be
compared to those from the new satellite instrument. NASA Langley
researchers are training students worldwide to observe clouds for
the project.
The new satellite instrument, the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant
Energy System
(CERES), provides global data on the Earth's clouds and
energy budget to help determine what effect clouds have on possible
global warming. CERES was launched in November 1997 as part of
NASA's Earth Science Enterprise.
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