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Glory

United States satellite
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Erik Gregersen
Erik Gregersen is a senior editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica, specializing in the physical sciences and technology. Before joining Britannica in 2007, he worked at the University of Chicago Press on the...
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Glory, American satellite that was designed to study Earth’s climate through measuring the amount of aerosols in the atmosphere and determining precisely the amount of solar energy Earth receives. Glory had two main science instruments: the Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor (APS) and the Total Irradiance Monitor (TIM). The APS would have used the polarization of light caused by the presence of aerosols such as soot and sulfates, which contribute to global warming, to measure their geographic...

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