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  • A dragon made of clouds is singing to Earth

    A dragon made of clouds is singing to Earth

    What if satellite cloud data could become music? Meet Hakuryu — a dragon born as the European Space Agency’s EarthCARE satellite, singing a song of peace for our planet.

    EarthCARE is the European Space Agency’s most advanced Earth Explorer launched to date, equipped with instruments that help us understand clouds and aerosols in new and unprecedented ways.

    It is a collaboration between ESA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, who designed and developed the satellite’s Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) instrument. JAXA called EarthCARE Hakuryu, which is Japanese for White Dragon.

    Hakuryu now lends its name to the title of a groundbreaking immersive installation that creates an audiovisual story from EarthCARE cloud and aerosol data in a way that has never been seen or heard before.

    Through data sonification, Hakuryu transforms over thirty types of data into immersive soundscapes and music. Clouds become choirs as Hakuryu sings to Earth, with voices from notable public, scientific and ESA figures joined by those needing care most – people from the frontline of climate change, displacement and conflict.

    Adding to this, data from atmospheric elements such as rain, snow, dust and smoke are rendered as rich environmental sonic textures. Simultaneously the same data is transformed into clouds, creating a vibrant trail behind an animated white dragon. Viewers slowly fly with Hakuryu, in a beautiful representation of Earth as it moves from day into night on its journey around the sun.

    The film you see here comprises one entire EarthCARE orbit around our planet. It is running live all week at ESA’s Living Planet Symposium in Vienna, from 23 to 27 June 2025, as an immersive installation. Following its debut, Hakuryu will travel the world in a variety of ways soon to be revealed.

    More about EarthCARE: https://esa.int/earthcare

    More about the EarthCARE DISC: https://earth.esa.int/eogateway/activities/earthcare-disc

    Visit the artist’s website: https://www.jamieperera.com/

    Credits:
    Artist: Jamie Perera

    Visual programming: Tekja (Jacopo Hirschstein)

    Sonification programmer: N3xtcoder (Jonathan Moore) & Adrian Lewis

    ESA development & production: Bjoern Frommknecht, Peter Bickerton, Shannon Mason and the EarthCARE Data, Innovation and Science Cluster (DISC)

    Installation production: Lorenza Versace

    Additional audio development: Danny Bright

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  • Have you ever seen the inside of a cloud? ☁️ #shorts

    Have you ever seen the inside of a cloud? ☁️ #shorts

    After being launched not even a month ago, EarthCARE has returned its first results.

    This was the first time we were able to see the internal structure and dynamics of clouds from space.

    These are the first results from EarthCARE’s Cloud Profiling Radar instrument, provided by JAXA, which will be followed by the first results from EarthCARE’s three other instruments in the next weeks and months.

    Excited for what’s to come?

    📹 ESA – European Space Agency
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  • EarthCARE is launched 🚀 #shorts

    EarthCARE is launched 🚀 #shorts

    ESA’s EarthCARE satellite lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, US, on 29 May at 00:20 CEST (28 May, 15:20 local time).

    Developed as a cooperation between ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer satellite carries a set of four instruments to make a range of different measurements that together will shed new light on the role that clouds and aerosols play in regulating Earth’s climate.

    Credits: ESA – European Space Agency

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  • Taking EarthCARE into orbit

    Taking EarthCARE into orbit

    ESA’s EarthCARE satellite lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, US, on 29 May at 00:20 CEST (28 May, 15:20 local time).

    Developed as a cooperation between ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer satellite carries a set of four instruments to make a range of different measurements that together will shed new light on the role that clouds and aerosols play in regulating Earth’s climate.

    Credits: ESA/SpaceX

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  • ESA’s EarthCARE launch (Official broadcast)

    ESA’s EarthCARE launch (Official broadcast)

    ESA’s EarthCARE mission is ready for lift-off! EarthCARE is a groundbreaking satellite mission designed to unravel the mysteries of Earth’s clouds and aerosols. EarthCARE will shed light on the role that clouds and aerosols play in heating and cooling Earth’s atmosphere – contributing to our better understanding of climate change. During our live coverage, we’ll hear from mission scientists and spacecraft operators, then follow the launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from California, expected at 00:20 CEST. Live from ESA’s spacecraft operations centre in Germany, we take you into the main control room around 01:12 CEST for the satellite’s acquisition of signal – EarthCARE’s first sign of life from space.

    Credits: ESA/SpaceX

    Timestaps of the video:
    00:00 – 38:24 – Start of ESA WebTV Programme – Live from the European Space Operations Centre
    38:25 – 50:44 – SpaceX live broadcast begins
    50:45 – 1:01:40 – Lift-off
    1:01:41 – 1:06:35 – Spacecraft deployment
    1:06:36 – 1:40:40 – Stay tuned
    1:40:41 – 1:44:50 – ESA WebTV Programme – Live from the European Space Operations Centre
    1:44:51 – 1:55:00 – Acquisition of signal

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  • Join us wishing good luck to EarthCARE! 🎏 #shorts

    Join us wishing good luck to EarthCARE! 🎏 #shorts

    Koinobori papercraft design and instructions available here: https://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/EarthObservation/Koinobori_papercraft_kit.pdf

    Go EarthCARE! 🚀☁️”

    Credits: ESA – European Space Agency

    #ESA #EarthCARE #Koinobori

  • What does EarthCARE mean to me?

    What does EarthCARE mean to me?

    A new satellite called EarthCARE launching later this month will provide unprecedented data on clouds and aerosols, contributing to our understanding of climate change. As we approach its launch, join us as we delve into the minds of some of the individuals who have contributed to EarthCARE over the years.

    The mission will shed new light on the role that clouds and aerosols play in regulating Earth’s temperature.

    This video features interviews with: Dave Donovan, Senior Scientist at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, Robin Hogan, Senior Scientist at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Ulla Wandinger, Senior Scientist at Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Alain Lefebvre, Retired Project Manager of EarthCARE at ESA, Hajime Okamoto, Director, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Bjoern Frommknecht, EarthCARE Mission Manager at ESA, Edward Baudrez, Scientific Assistant at the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, Thorsten Fehr, EarthCARE Mission Scientist at ESA, Pavlos Kollias from Stony Brook University – McGill University and Dirk Bernaerts, EarthCARE Project Manager at ESA.

    Follow the EarthCARE launch campaign blog for more updates: https://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/

    Credits: ESA – European Space Agency

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  • Meet the team behind EarthCARE

    Meet the team behind EarthCARE

    As we approach the launch of ESA’s EarthCARE mission, we caught up with some of the scientists, engineers and experts behind the mission.

    With the climate crisis increasingly tightening its grip, ESA’s Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer mission (EarthCARE) will shed new light on the complex interactions between clouds, aerosols and radiation in Earth’s atmosphere.

    EarthCARE is the largest and most complex Earth Explorer mission. It comes at a critical time in the development of kilometre-scale resolution, global climate models and will provide an important contribution to an improved understanding of cloud convection and its role in Earth’s radiation budget.

    EarthCARE is an ESA mission, but it has been developed as a cooperation between ESA and JAXA, the Japanese Space Agency.

    This video features interviews with: Pavlos Kollias from Stony Brook University – McGill University, Thorsten Fehr, EarthCARE Mission Scientist at ESA, Robin Hogan, Senior Scientist at ECMWF, Dirk Bernaerts, EarthCARE Project Manager at ESA, Kotska Wallace, Mission and Optical Payload Manager at ESA, Tomomi Nio, EarthCARE Mission Manager at JAXA, Eiichi Tomita, EarthCARE/CPR Project Manager at JAXA, Ulla Wandinger, Senior Scientist at Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research and Bjoern Frommknecht, EarthCARE Mission Manager at ESA.

    Follow the EarthCARE launch campaign blog for more updates.

    Credits: ESA – European Space Agency

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  • EarthCARE bids adieu to Europe

    EarthCARE bids adieu to Europe

    After years of development and a rigorous testing programme, ESA’s EarthCARE satellite has left Munich, Germany, and is now on its away to SpaceX’s launch site in Vandenberg, California. Once it arrives, it will be put into storage for a few weeks until it is time to ready the satellite for liftoff – which is scheduled to launch in May on a Falcon 9 rocket.

    The Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer, or EarthCARE for short, is the most complex Earth Explorer mission to date. The new satellite will look at the role that clouds and aerosols play in heating and cooling Earth’s atmosphere – contributing to our understanding of climate change.

    With its unique set of four instruments, EarthCARE will examine the role clouds and aerosols play in reflecting solar radiation back into space and also in trapping infrared radiation emitted from Earth’s surface.

    EarthCARE is a joint venture between ESA and JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

    This video features interviews with Simonetta Cheli, Director of Earth Observation Programmes at ESA, Thorsten Fehr, ESA’s EarthCARE Mission Scientist, Dirk Bernaerts, ESA’s EarthCARE Project Manager and Eiichi Tomita, JAXA’s EarthCARE/CPR Project Manager.

    Credits: ESA – European Space Agency

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  • Spreading EarthCARE’s solar wing

    Spreading EarthCARE’s solar wing

    ESA’s EarthCARE satellite mission will soon be launched to answer some critical scientific questions related to the role that clouds and aerosols play in reflecting incident solar radiation back out to space and trapping infrared radiation emitted from Earth’s surface. As engineers are preparing EarthCARE for its life in orbit, the satellite is being put through its paces at ESA testing facilities in the Netherlands – the largest satellite test facility in Europe, equipped to simulate every aspect of the space environment.

    One of the first tests involved the deployment of the satellite’s 11 metre solar wing from its folded stowed configuration, which allows it to fit in the rocket fairing, to its fully deployed configuration as it will be in orbit around Earth.

    This timelapse video shows this deployment test from various angles.

    Read full story: EarthCARE takes a big stretch https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/EarthCARE/EarthCARE_takes_a_big_stretch

    Credit: ESA–M. Cowan

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  • ESA’s Earth Explorers surpassing expectations

    ESA’s Earth Explorers surpassing expectations

    Forging state-of-the-art space technologies, our Earth Explorer satellite missions continue to surpass expectations with a range of interesting and complementary results that go beyond their original goals. In this video, learn how each mission is contributing to Earth science, and changing the way we look at our beloved planet.

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