"CloudSat's radar performed flawlessly, and although the data are still very preliminary, it provided breathtaking new views of the weather on our planet," Graeme Stephens, CloudSat principal investigator and a professor at CSU Fort Collins, said in a statement. "All major cloud system types were observed, and the radar demonstrated its ability to penetrate through almost all but the heaviest rainfall."
This is a CloudSat image of a polar night storm near Antarctica. The top image shows the area being observed. The bottom image is a horizontal cross-section of clouds. The red spots represent rain or ice crystals, blue are thin clouds, and green is the horizon.
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