Article: CALIPSO to blast off on Friday: The project, with help from Hampton University, will provide new information on Earth's atmosphere.

Byline: Jim Hodges L

Apr. 20--HAMPTON -- When it blasts off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Friday, Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations will be taking the known into space in search of the unknown. The satellite will carry lidar technology aloft to measure the thickness of clouds and aerosols in Earth's atmosphere. The hope is a more complete understanding of climate and weather. Better hurricane forecasting is a possibility. It's the kind of trip that makes a scientist's heart skip a beat. "I'm excited for two reasons," says Dave Winker, who works at NASA Langley Research Center and is the principal ...

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