Robots on the Roof
The Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) is one of the first places that scientists turn when volcanoes, wildfires, pollution plumes, dust storms and many other phenomena-both natural and manmade-make an appearance. The network of ground-based instruments, called sun photometers, measures the many tiny particles blowing about in the atmosphere called aerosols. The particles are often impossible to see with human eyes, but AERONET's sensors can detect their presence by measuring subtle fluctuations in sunlight as the particles reflect and scatter the sun's rays.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animator
- Megan Willy (IRC/UMBC)
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Video editor
- Brooke Harris (UMBC)
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Producers
- Brooke Harris (UMBC)
- Michelle Williams (UMBC)
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Scientist
- Brent Holben (NASA/GSFC)
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Videographers
- Michelle Williams (UMBC)
- Rob Andreoli (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Friday, September 17, 2010.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:54 PM EDT.
Series
This page can be found in the following series:Tapes
The media on this page originally appeared on the following tapes:-
AERONET Web Short (wt)
(ID: 2010097)
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 at 4:00AM
Produced by - Eric DeJong (NASA/JPL CalTech)
Used as a Source In
- ID: 31171
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