Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)
Libera
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- Category
- Physical Infrastructure
- Affiliations
- LASP
Description
NASA Libera radiometer instrument, four co-aligned electrical substitution radiometers with carbon-nanotube absorbers on elevation and azimuth scan mechanisms, to monitor Earth’s radiative energy budget and continue the CERES data record; to fly on JPSS-4 (launch scheduled 2027).
Official page
https://lasp.colorado.edu/instruments/libera/
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Details
- Keywords
- earth’s radiative energy budget, ceres data continuity, electrical substitution radiometer, vertically aligned carbon nanotubes, elevation scan mechanism, on-orbit calibrators
- Location
- In space
- Measurement band
- Ultraviolet; visible; infrared
- Instrument platform
- JPSS-4
- Associated entity
- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
- Deployment platform
- satellite
- Specifications
- Each telescope images a 1.12° x 2.24° hexagonal ground patch onto a high-speed absolute electrical substitution radiometer (ESR) that absorbs radiation with vertically aligned carbon nanotubes…