these measurements have never been made before.
Similar measurements have been made, but decades ago,
not nearly as detailed or as careful.
And these are new measurements that will be able to provide
data that gets applied to the climate
models.
I'm excited about this mission because I know it'll have a long
lasting impact on the science and that that science
is very much directed at the humanity of this earth
and that these measurements will be around
for a long, long time and that the
scientists of the world will be using these
to rely on heavily for the next five years.
There will be future missions that bring even better data.
But I think even for ten, 15, 20 years,
these measurements
will be used by scientists to inform our understanding
of the earth and the processes of heat loss for the earth.
So there was actually a lot of engineering development
that went into building this instrument.
the instruments are designed at JPL,
and they're brought together from components.
JPL is previously built before, but they needed to be
completely re-engineered and scaled down
in most cases.
So there have been measurements made of the heat
loss from Earth, but only heat in certain ranges
from the really hotter, warmer temperatures.
And yeah,
there's still a lot of heat that's lost
from the cooler temperatures, which is what we're really going
to be able to measure by going over the poles.
And that's such an unknown area of science
that the scientists are now building in a
theoretical assumption for what is being lost from the earth.
But by making these measurements,
we can give them actual data so they're no longer reliant
on their various various assumptions about what it is.