NASA’s ER-2 Aircraft Captures Moonlight to Calibrate Space Sensors
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NASA’s ER-2 high-altitude aircraft prepares for a night flight with the Airborne Lunar Spectral Irradiance (air-LUSI) instrument. The instrument measures Moonlight to improve accuracy of space-based sensors that observe weather, survey agriculture, and study Earth’s ecosystem. NASA/Christopher LC Clark A NASA instrument designed to measure the Moon’s brightness to help satellite sensors make more accurate […]