42 Years of Measuring the Sun, the Earth and the Energy in Between

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42 Years of Measuring the Sun, the Earth and the Energy in Between

By Denise Lineberry

NASA’s Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS), a part of the NASA’s three satellite Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE), was designed to investigate how energy from the Sun is absorbed and re-emitted by the Earth.

On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a cosmic ray detector, was...