CATS Stories

Africa, From a CATS Point of View

From Saharan dust storms to icy clouds to smoke on the opposite side of the continent, the first image from NASA’s newest cloud- and aerosol-measuring instrument provides a profile of the atmosphere above Africa. The Cloud-Aerosol Transport System instrument (CATS),…

NASA’s CATS Eyes Clouds, Smoke and Dust from the Space Station

Turn on any local TV weather forecast and you can get a map of where skies are blue or cloudy. But for scientists trying to figure out how clouds affect the Earth’s environment, what’s happening inside that shifting cloud cover…