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2025

ESA, 28 July

EarthCARE lifetime update

Analysis of available fuel suggests a mission of at least 10 years is possible, but could be longer depending on solar activity. This is much longer than the 3-4 years originally foreseen and could greatly enhance the scientific impact of the mission.

ESA Image of the Month, 9 July

Canadian wildfire smoke

Lidar detection of smoke carried across the Arctic to Europe.

ESA, 24 June

Global calibration/validation activities

Including ground-based and in-situ aircraft campaigns.

ESA Image of the Month, 15 June

Tropical Cyclone Vince

EarthCARE's MSI stares into the eye.

ESA, 23 June

Hakuryu: EarthCARE data sonified

An immersive instalation in which the clouds and aerosols seen by EarthCARE are converted into music.

ESA, 29 May

Five things we learned in EarthCARE's impressive first year

Including some surprises: EarthCARE can measure insects and phytoplankton!

ESA Image of the Month, 29 May

Evaluating EarthCARE retrievals using measured and modelled solar radiation

ECMWF Newsletter, 22 April

Assimilating EarthCARE data improves ECMWF forecasts

ESA Image of the Month, 31 March 2025

BBR sees thunderstorms in Spain

ESA, 18 March

Level-2 data released

ECMWF, 10 March

Synergy retrievals, first model comparison and radiative closure

ESA, 20 February

Polar stratospheric clouds

KNMI, 21 January, in Dutch

Los Angeles wildfires

2024

The launch of EarthCARE in May 2024 received widespread media coverage, and was quickly followed by ESA and JAXA's "First Light" stories for the individual instruments and the first demonstration of the power of instrument synergy. There were many field campaigns in 2024, some described in ESA's EarthCARE campaign blog.