NASA: Future missions to study clouds, aerosols, volcanic plumes.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-28 December 1998-NASA: Future missions to study clouds, aerosols, volcanic plumes (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:221298 NASA has chosen for development three small spacecraft missions designed to explore the Earth's dynamic systems early in the new millennium under the Office of Earth Science's Earth System Science Pathfinders (ESSP) program.

The primary mission is PICASSO-CENA (Pathfinder Instruments for Cloud and Aerosol Spaceborne Observations -- Climatologie Etendue des Nuages et des Aerosols), co-led by NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, and the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Paris, France. The instruments on PICASSO-CENA are designed to address the role of clouds and small atmospheric particles known as aerosols and...