Tiny Satellite's First Global Map of Ice Clouds (VIDEO)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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Looking at Earth from the International Space Station, astronauts see big, white clouds spreading across the planet. They cannot distinguish a gray rain cloud from a puffy white cloud. While satellites can see through many clouds and estimate the liquid precipitation they hold, they can't see the smaller ice particles that create enormous rain clouds.

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NASA Goddard/Katy Mersmann

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